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I honestly don’t think anyone is going to pack up their family and relocate to foreign country because of a hypothetical additional tax they might incur decades in the future And unless they do so before June when the CG increases, they’re only to end up incurring the tax now instead of decades from now Besides doctors make a lot of money it’s not like selling their business is their only retirement option they have more opportunities to save and invest than the vast majority of society. They can invest in stocks and bonds and mutual funds like the rest of us plebes. Not to mention that in addition to their day job many also dabble in all these private healthcare rackets doing corporate and executive wellness programs and side-gig consulting for insurance companies etc. They’re not going to be retiring in poverty.

They are not going to flee Canada over capital gains in excess of $250k per year, they don’t get paid for their services stock or real estate. Sure, “many” plan to someday sell their practice upon retirement and get a once-in-a lifetime capital gain and they’ll MAYBE pay a little more tax than otherwise (but many probably have no idea how much the “otherwise” was going to be in the first place). And that’s assuming they can’t find some other tax loophole. Wah. There are plenty of ways to invest your wealth AND to dodge taxes when you pull in the six and seven figure incomes many of these doctors do. And where would they go? Most countries fully tax capital gains. Here in Canada the gains inclusion rate has gone up and doen a lot just in recent decades it’s not some timeless sacred cow that nobody has dared to touch. Its only been at its current inclusion level since 1999 since it was lowered under a previous Liberal government. The last time it was increased it was by a conservative government. And many measures like productivity haven’t gotten any better since the CG inclusion was cut. The preferential treatment of Capital Gains perversely incentivizes many business owners to sell instead of invest. Why grow your business and earn fully taxable income when you can sell it for partially taxable income? The Canadian economy has a real problem with foreign ownership, owners and founders selling off businesses prematurely and low productivity, and the Captive Gains special treatment contributes to that.

From conservative Murdoch-owned New York Post by conservative blowhard Piers Morgan Moscow Marjorie’ Taylor Greene is Putin’s useful idi*t and the real betrayer of America Piers Morgan Every time mad-eyed blond blunderbuss Marjorie Taylor Greene opens her big, loud, expletive-fueled mouth, I feel like some of my brain cells spontaneously die. Since she first appeared on the Washington scene after the 2016 election, “MTG” has proven herself to be a trash-talking, cerebrally challenged, shockingly shameless, attention-grabbing political Barbie for whom no conspiracy theory is ever bonkers enough to reject. She claimed mass shootings like those at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were “false flag” operations. She suggested the 9/11 attacks were part of a government conspiracy and that no plane hit the Pentagon. She said California wildfires might have been ignited by a space laser controlled by a Jewish cabal that included the Rothschild banking firm. She claimed Bill and Hillary Clinton murdered political rivals — including JFK Jr. in a plane crash. She has supported insane QAnon rabbit hole BS that top Democrats are involved in child sex-trafficking, Satan worship and cannibalism. And so — crazily — on. In fact, the full list of Taylor Greene’s stupefyingly cretinous comments and beliefs is so long, there literally isn’t enough room in this column to cite them all. Yet staggeringly, none of this has stopped her rise to one of the most influential voices in the Republican Party — and one of the most dangerous. This weekend saw the nadir of her nefarious antics as she led a campaign to stop America offering support to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, in urgent need of security assistance to defend themselves from the ruthless totalitarian regimes of Russia, Iran and China. It shouldn’t have been a difficult bill for Republicans to support. When three of America’s historical enemies are threatening freedom and democracy, the world’s No. 1 superpower has a moral duty, and obvious self-interest, to flex its financial and military might to help the targets defend themselves. If not, frankly, why claim to be the leader of the free world? And don’t give me all this disingenuous guff about how the US should forgo this duty to focus on the domestic chaos at the southern border. As many conservative commentators like Ben Shapiro have said, the nation can, and should, be perfectly capable of doing both things at the same time. Yet Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) seems intent on making America abrogate all responsibility for protecting freedom and democracy, and on doing the dictators’ dirty work for them. Especially with regard to the Ukraine war, during which Moscow Marjorie has become Vladimir Putin’s chief “useful idi*t.” The phrase is apt because it was another Vladimir, Soviet Union founder Lenin, who is thought to have first deployed the scornful phrase to describe naïve, easily manipulated Communist sympathizers in the West who spewed pro-Russian propaganda without comprehending the USSR’s malevolent intent. Lenin loved what these idi*ts did on his behalf but despised them at the same time for their treacherous stupidity. The current Vladimir will feel exactly the same way about the likes of Taylor Greene, whose Kremlin-pleasing rhetoric has made her the darling of Russian state media. Three weeks ago, she appeared on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast and parroted Putin’s nonsense that Ukraine was waging a “war against Christianity” and Russia is “protecting the religion.” She even falsely claimed the Ukrainian government was executing priests. In fact, it’s Russia that’s been torturing, kidnapping and killing scores of Ukrainian religious leaders. And in a House Oversight Committee hearing last week, Taylor Greene repeated more Putin claptrap that Ukraine is overrun by Nazis — only to be corrected by eminent historian Timothy Snyder, who pointed out that no far-right party has ever won more than 3% support in Ukrainian elections, whereas the Russian army “includes openly Nazi formations” and “the government itself is fascist in character, and it is carrying out a war which includes deportation of children by the tens of thousands, the open intention of destroying a state, as well as mass torture.” Snyder concluded: “So if there is anyone who is sincerely concerned about halting fascism or racism, you would wish to halt Russia.” Taylor Greene is sadly too dumb or delusional to understand this, but fortunately, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) isn’t, and got the $95 billion foreign aid bill passed on Saturday in a bipartisan deal with Democrats. He explained before allowing the crucial vote: “I believe that [Chinese President] Xi [Jinping] and Vladimir Putin and Iran really are an axis of evil. I think they are in coordination on this. I think that Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe. I am going to allow an opportunity for every single member of the House to vote their conscience and their will. I’m willing to take a personal risk for that, because we have to do the right thing. And history will judge us.” He’s right, and history will judge him so. But Taylor Greene’s predictable response was to demand he be fired. “Mike Johnson’s speakership is over,” she declared on Fox News on Sunday. “He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated.” And what was his crime, in her eyes? “He has betrayed America. He has betrayed Republican voters.” Hmmm. A recent survey by the American Action Network, the advocacy arm of the Congressional Leadership Forum, found that 56% of “traditional Republicans” favor aid to Ukraine. So Johnson has not betrayed Republican voters. And as for betraying America, he’s not the one being cheered on by Russian state media and Vladimir Putin. That’s Moscow Marjorie, the useful idi*t .

You should buy more truth social stock to fund your revolution. How’s that investment going by the way?

Summary: - In 2021, an innocent law-abiding accountant is getting into his car with his pregnant wife and toddler, in the middle of the night in underground parking garage at City Hall. They’re suddenly and aggressively confronted by plain clothes Toronto cops investigating a nearby stabbing, who don’t identify themselves as cops. Thinking they’re about to be robbed or worse, the family attempts to speed away in their car, accidentally running over and killing one of the cops in what is now confirmed to be nothing more than a tragic accIdent. - The police implausibly alleged that the accountant knew they were police and deliberately hit the man with his car (automatic first degree murder charge for cops) for no real reason as they admit he is a law abiding citizen with no criminal connection or obvious mental illness - Legal experts were surprised by the decision to prosecute, openly saying it is a political prosecution that never would have happened if deceased had not been a cop - 3 Cops caught lying on the stand, and are now under investigation by Ontario Provincial Police. All 3 told the same false version of events that is clearly inconsistent with the video footage and scene evidence, the judge observing while it is possible for one individual to have a false memory of something that didn’t happen, the jury should note that all 3 officers recounted the exact same false memory of very specific things that clearly did not happen. - After the judge expressed repeated frustration with the prosecution’s refusal to suggest any motive for a deliberate killing and the prosecution’s failure to present a theory of what might have actually happened given the actual evidence, the prosecution advised mid-trial it was switching to a “second theory” of what happened, now claiming that the officer was actually run over backwards not forwards and in a different location, which was less contradictory to the actual evidence. But then they couldn’t explain how the cops body ended up where it did it was run over somewhere else. Then the prosecution said it was abandoning the “second theory” and going back to the first theory, and will proceed based solely on the cops’ bogus testimony. THEY WERE MAKING UP THEIR STORY AS THEY GO WHILE THE MURDER TRIAL IS ALREADY WELL UNDERWAY. That’s how trials might work in Putin’s Russia or North Korea but not in democracies. - Despite the clearly unwarranted prosecution, Doug Ford, former Mayor John Tory and Mayor Patrick Brown tweeted incendiary tweets about the falsely accused during the Trump, expressing outrage at his bail, etc. causing him and his lawyers to e inundated with death threats and hate messages In an extremely rare gesture, after the innocent verdict, the judge apologized to the falsely accused man. “You have my … deepest apologies for what you have been through”

Actually Jesus was a socialist. Satan was a far-right populist.

The actual number? Maybe it 65%, maybe it’s 55%, it’s a slim but decisive majority. 60% “feels right” to describe GOP Putin supporters, Putin-curious, and Ukraine-skeptics, which are the main different flavours of Putin stooge.

LOL yeah right you’re just fooled by the same fake news she is Nonsense there’s zero truth to any of that. The real truth is that Russia and China are allies. By being Russian stooges, the Republicans are also China stooges and Iran stooges .

Yeah Riiight🤣 Brainwashed sucker. Thanks for proving the title of this thread is 100% accurate

It’s a small but decisive majority Nobody tells anyone to think that least of all me. It’s easily observed.

Putin is an active enemy of the west, I know the fifth columnist sympathizers of America’s enemies like yourself would rather nobody notice. Republicans bad, Putin worse.

Certainly the West was sleeping when Putin made his move in 2014. But when Trump became President, Putin expected Trump would allow him to take all of Ukraine without an invasion. The Trump 2016 campaign team and former Putin Oligarch employee Paul Manafort specifically had discussed this with Russian officials including Russian intelligence asset Konstantin Kilimnik. They specifically discussed how a Trump administration would end US support for Ukraine and end US opposition to Russian aggression, Only when Biden was elected did Russia realize they would have to try and take by force what Trump would have handed on a silver platter. Trump continues to be Putin supporter to this day.

The only anti-American slime is the Putin supporting traitors in the GOP like Moscow Marjorie and friends who are green with envy that they can’t have a similar dictatorship in the US….yet.

Right…Putin is not a threat, the Dems are a threat. Putin Puppet. No you’re trying to change the subject from the fact that more than half of the current Republican Party is actively aiding and abetting Putin.

OMG I cannot stand this guy, he’s always popping up in my YouTube feed. Not that I have a problem with what he says but something about the way he looks and talks just drives me nuts