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They will move jobs overseas ( and they did) but they personally won't go to live in India or any place like that. Taxing the rich more wont make any of them move anywhere.( and if fact it didn't when Clinton had implemented higher taxes) OTOH, since jobs were already sent offshore, if extremely rich won't accept paying more tax, they should be welcome to leave. I would actually implement tax for leaving the country. I have to pay house transfer tax in Toronto. They should also be taxed on moving.. so harshly that they wouldn't consider moving at all.
I have problems with Hudak as well but he seems to me to be the lesser of three evils. Hudak seems politically naive. Harris was the greatest Ontario premier in recent memory. I have an entirely different recollection of his time than the one that you are putting forward. My one beef with him is the entirely useless "temporary" emissions testing tax which we can't seem to get rid of but might if Hudak becomes premier. It is simply not possible to be more incompetent or corrupt on e-health. One thing that is certain is that Hudak won't have the free pass from the press that the current provincial government seems to enjoy.
I am well aware that Martin offloaded a great deal on provinces and cities.
I am not really concerned about the tea party bogeyman. To bring it up seems to me to betray a certain rigid ideology on your part.
The "lesser of three evils" is probably how most people vote.
Harris did make some tough cuts but nobody is perfect (e.g. the civil service and politicians still had their high pensions). Common sense wasn't always applied. His gov't benefitted greatly from the US doing well under Clinton.
The tea party bogeyman refers to the Harris Gov't bringing in American consultants who could talk the political/idealogical talk, but who had a history of getting fired in the US for disasterous management of things like prisons. Harris's prison privatization was purely political, not economic, and has been reversed. Some of Harris's cuts were purely political/personal like cuts to women's shelters (anything that helps poor people are special interest groups, but helping rich groups are good for the economy). Many decisons were rushed and rammed through buried in undemocratic omnibills, like preventing separated dads from making child payments. Harris slipped through his involvement in being tough on natives resulting in a death, but lost votes in the end with the Walkerton deaths due to cuts and privatization. Some government bureaucrats actually protect lives. As time went on the effects of the cuts to health and education hurt many people so they voted Ernie Eves out.
Ya I guess the Pope is pissed off that the corporations are doing what the church has always done. When Vatican City sells their priceless art collection to finance the raising of children of broke people with ten children I will be a bit more impressed.
"Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.
Wealthiest 1% earn 10 times more than average Canadian
The richest of the rich in Canada earn about 10 times more than the average Canadian income of $38,700 and are generally married, middle-aged, white men, the final release of data from the National Household Survey shows.
Is this a problem? If so, why?
Bob A
P.S. I assume that the $ 38,700 is a single individual income. If so, I am surprised that it is this high these days. It seems to me that many in the 25-40 year olds range, are having difficulty finding decent paying full-time jobs, and that many are underemployed (many with first University degrees), many working more than one low-paying part-time job just to survive. Is anyone else surprised by the individual average?
Getting back to the issue of income & wealth inequality, can it can lead to cases of "affluenza"?
I had never heard this term before, but there was a recent ruling in Texas where a spoiled wealthy kid convicted of drunk driving and killing 4 avoids jail time by pleading affluenza, or "you have to excuse my behaviour, I am too wealthy and spoiled to know better". Unbelievable.
Indeed, and the biggest corporate welfare recipient in Canada is the CBC - over $1.1B per year and every year!
Where your federal tax dollar goes: Summary
That's our brief summary of federal spending for 2010–11.
14 Other transfer payments
13 Support to elderly
12 Other operations
11 Public debt charges
10 Canada Health Transfer
8 Defence
7 Employment Insurance benefits
6 Other major transfers to other levels of government
5 Children's benefits
4 Canada Social Transfer
4 Crown corporations
3 Public Safety
3 Canada Revenue Agency
Crown corporations
Crown corporations (organizations owned directly or indirectly by the government) cost $10.5 billion, or just under 4 cents of each tax dollar spent.
Most of this spending was by four organizations:
1 Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, which helps support home ownership and affordable housing -- $3.0 billion;
2 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation -- $1.8 billion;
3 Atomic Energy of Canada Limited -- $1.7 billion and,
4 Canadian Commercial Corporation -- $1.6 billion.
Atlantic Pilotage Authority
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL)
Bank of Canada
Blue Water Bridge Authority
Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)
Canada Council for the Arts (Canada Council)
Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation
Canada Development Investment Corporation
Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board (CEIFB)
Canada Lands Company
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Canada Post Corporation
Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Canadian Commercial Corporation
Canadian Dairy Commission
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Canadian Tourism Commission
Cape Breton Growth Fund Corporation
Defence Construction (1951) Limited
Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation
Export Development Canada
Farm Credit Canada
Federal Bridge Corporation Limited
Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation
Great Lakes Pilotage Authority
International Development Research Centre
Laurentian Pilotage Authority
Marine Atlantic Inc.
National Arts Centre
National Capital Commission
National Gallery of Canada
National Museum of Science and Technology
Old Port of Montreal Corporation Inc.
Pacific Pilotage Authority
Parc Downsview Park Inc.
Public Sector Pension Investment Board
Ridley Terminals Inc.
Royal Canadian Mint
Standards Council of Canada
Telefilm Canada
Via Rail Canada Inc.
Wealthiest 1% earn 10 times more than average Canadian
The richest of the rich in Canada earn about 10 times more than the average Canadian income of $38,700 and are generally married, middle-aged, white men, the final release of data from the National Household Survey shows.
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