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I don't disagree. But they are a bureaucracy. It costs a lot of money to pursue such people and successfully prosecute, and with no guarantees. And if they're successful the money goes to the Treasury, not back into CRA's budget.

A lot of tax expertise disappears from CRA every year as it is lured into accounting firms where people are paid much higher salaries for their knowledge and abilities. In addition, there is a reluctance to engage with high earners because such people are known to have very pricey lawyers and accountants who will put up a long, complicated, expert fight that will be expensive to pursue. It's much easier to go after the low-hanging fruit. It might earn less individually, but you can get reams of people to comply with just a letter. Even if you're wrong about what they owe. People mostly don't feel they can fight CRA. And they're mostly right. Unless you're rich, of course.

Warren Buffet famously said that he pays a lower percentage of his income in taxes than his secretary. We can, I suppose, praise him for paying such a large amount in tax, but it's still a smaller percent of what he makes than his secretary, and that's simply not fair. When Trudeau started talking about 'tax the rich' he meant 'Well ,yeah, but not ME". He and Morneau, who was much richer, simply brought in increases to the income tax rate of those earning more than a quarter million or so. But the real 'rich' don't get most of their money in pure, taxable income so this doesn't really impact them. Trudeau and Morneau get money from a series of family trusts set up by very capable lawyers and accountants. Now to say anyone can do that is true but misleading. Most of us aren't going to have the money to make that economically viable. Money earned through dividends and capital gains are taxed at a fraction of income. Why? Well, the idea was to encourage saving. But you could do that while still imposing a means test. Tax such income fully when it exceeds a certain level, say $100 -$200k or more. That wouldn't impact any but the real rich, some of whom earn millions in dividends and interest on bonds every year. Aside, it's not really the 1%. It's the 0.1% who need to pay more. Also, every cabinet minister and party leader is in the 1%.

It's because the Left doesn't believe in personal responsibility. We see that on every topic, from education to crime. If you go wrong then society is at fault. The lower economic outcomes of the Black community here, in the US, in the UK, in Australia are due to the behavior of those communities. And what prejudice exists against them is largely a result of their own behaviour. But the white knights can't accept that any other group can be held liable for its own misbehaviour and so have to find some alternative explanation in which they blame the white community. All the while they avert their eyes from the success, educational and economic, of various Asian communities and pretend that doesn't completely counter their arguments about 'white supremacy'. How many tens of billions have we forked over to the natives since Trudeau came to power? Is anyone even keeping track? This money will lower the economic well-being of all Canadians over the next decades - except the grifters in the native rights industry, of course, who will wind up with a huge chunk of that money. People come from all over the world without language or job skills and thrive here but somehow natives, who can speak the language perfectly well can't drive to nearby cities to get free post-secondary education and then work for a living. Instead reams of nonsense are written about the plight of the 'impoverished natives' living in the boonies far from jobs and any economic reason for existence. These reserves get massive amounts of money which is largely stolen and/or misspent by the grifters in charge of their reserves These reserves should be shut down and the natives moved to cities. It will be hard on the present generation but the next will likely begin to thrive. Though only if they avoid the problems of Blacks, which they share. Namely, missing fathers and high crime rates. Try saying any of that in public, though, and watch the outrage and attempts to cancel you.

His conclusion is based on fact and reason. Yours seems to be based on pure emotionalism.

Not to Canada. Will it? According to the Conference Board of Canada just the cost of decarbonizing the electric grid will be $1.7 TRILLION. And of course, there's tons more costs on top of that, including whole networks of charging stations for electric cars, the costs of the cars themselves, the cost of destroying our natural resource industry, etc.

What do you imagine we could have done anyway? Tell China to not build coal plants? Think that would've worked?

That's an interesting response. I say that at this point there's nothing we can do. And rather than disagreeing and pointing out what we perhaps CAN do you simply throw out what appears to be a silly ass complaint that I don't want to do anything. But if you want to do something that might actually impact global warming - what is it? You don't actually have any ideas, do you? Bankrupt ourselves to virtue signal? Is that what you want us to do? Adapting doesn't take that long. It's trying to change it that would take a very long time. So far no one seems much interested in adapting.

The science says there's nothing Canada can do to impact climate change. In fact, at this point there's not much ANYONE can do. Something as vast as the global climate takes a very long time to change. The weather you're seeing is a result of what we did 40 years ago. We won't see the results of today's level of emissions until 2073. Well, probably not me, but the world. And we're not going to be cutting emissions for many years to come as the developing world continues to build coal plants. So the only logical thing is to do what we can to adjust to a warmer world, and not spend all our money and beggar our economy on a fruitless quest to meet some arbitrary goal and timeline so Truedope can flex and smirk at his admirers because he achieved 'net zero'. Spending $1.7 trillion for effectively NO gain is the height of insanity and narcissism.

Sure it is. The Right considers the science and economics. The Left runs around screaming at the top of their lungs with their hair standing on end and their eyes bugging out of their pointy heads. Look up El Nino, sometime, by the way, to find out why this spring is so much worse than last spring in terms of fires. Hint: Climate change moves very slowly. You don't see huge differences from year to year. But every storm, every fire or flood the Left seizes on it to scaremonger about climate change. Trudeau's goal of net neutral by 2035 is going to cost this country $1.7 TRILLION but the Left wants more. Like Trudeau, the Left not only doesn't understand economics it disdains it. The Left thinks caring about money and budgets and the economy is just beneath them. They think they're thinking BIG THOUGHTS and no one should care about the cost.

Riiight. They'll be sorted according to ethnic identity value points as to which will give him the biggest boost in identified ethnic voting communities. Probably someone from India will win. Then Trudeau can do the Bollywood dressup game again.

I'm sure he's got a committee searching for a suitably ethnic replacement.

Trump's former lawyer. Cobb said, “Well, I think this original indictment was engineered to last 1,000 years, and now it will last, the superseding indictment will last until antiquity. I mean, this is such a tight case. The evidence is so overwhelming. It’s very difficult to imagine how Trump could say, how that his lawyers met with Jack Smith’s today to explain to him that he hadn’t done anything wrong on the same day that Jack Smith produces this evidence, overwhelming evidence of additional wrongdoing on his part.” https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/07/27/ty-cobb-mar-a-lago-documents-case-now-has-overwhelming-evidence/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

Do tell. So like, no money from the federal government at all, right?

Sorry, Mr. Trumptard. I can only interact with you people for so long before I get bored.

I wasn't insulting your intelligence, I was denying its existence.

Standard of living is measured by the human development index. HDI is not entirely about wealth. It also encompasses things like education, child poverty, infant mortality level, clean water, economic security, etc. Generally, those are strongly correlated with wealth. Canada's HDI is 16th best in the world. Interestingly, of the 15 nations with a higher HDI, all but Germany have much lower populations than Canada does. Which makes the Trudeau government's obsession with increasing our population as rapidly as possible, regardless of costs even more puzzling. It's even getting in the way of one of their other obsessions - carbon reductions. Since obviously bringing in millions of people is going to make it much harder to reduce emissions from an arbitrary level. The estimated cost of achieving their carbon reduction goals by 2035 is $1.7 TRILLION dollars (Conference Board of Canada) There's also Quality of Life. By that measure we're in 27th place Japan, which everyone seems to think is in woeful shape due to its aging workforce and lack of immigration, is in 13th place.

Canadian household disposable income falling. Even if the measure was falling, the aggregate can rise by just adding more people than the decline. The issue at the highest level should be obvious at this point—annual growth for the population (+3%) is higher than disposable income (+2.8%). Adjusting for population, household disposable income showed a 0.5% decline over the past year. Add inflation for Q1 into the mix, and disposable income dropped 4.8% on a per capita basis. https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-households-get-left-behind-as-real-disposable-income-falls/#google_vignette

I think this is somewhat pedantic. Yes, if there is a huge shift in the allocation of income from the poor/middle class to the rich it's conceivable that a larger GDP per capita would not be an appropriate measure of wealth or standard of living. But it's certainly less likely than having growing inequality and ALSO a falling GDP per capita.

In 1980 Canada and the US were both $4,000 per year ahead of all our peers in GDP per capita. But those were the 'glory days'. Canada's real GDP per person is now $52k. Australia's is $65k Guess which of us has embraced our national resource industry and worked hard to develop export markets and build LNG terminals, pipelines and build mines? The US is now at $80k And Canada falls further behind every year with a government that has been laser-focused on DEI and culture issues, native reconciliation, and climate change for eight years. And by the way, managed to spend tens of billions of dollars while not making any improvement in any of them. Whatever your political stripe that ought to be very damned worrying.

Your province is run by Nationalists who are presently engaged in a long ethnic cleansing effort to remove all Anglos and English speakers so you can be 'pure' again. Maybe you should ask your nurse to up your dosage.

I spoke truth, something that is like garlic to cult vampires like you. Only the hee-haw set thinks Trump did any kind of halfway reasonable job as President. He spent his time in twitter wars with b-list actresses and drifting for money from the Saudis, the Chinese, and anyone else willing to pay him or his kids for influence. Ain't that right, hee-haw boy? Do you really think, Hee-Haw boy, that Joe Biden was personally ordering prisoners set free, or personally choosing airports or in any way involved in any of the planning for any of that? You Hee-Haw people clearly don't understand how large scale organizations work, much less politics, much less government, much less the military. In fact, 'much less' is probably a good name for you and your cult. Including 'much less' brain power and 'much less' education. LOL. And now the president is sitting in a room controlling drones! LOL. You Hee-Haw people chawng down on yer tabacci and spitting on yer dirt floors will buy anything you read on the internet. How would you know? You don't know any conservatives. And I guarantee you conservatives don't want to know YOU! BIDEN spent billions! LOL. No mention of the hundreds of billions Trump spent, nor how much of it wound up in his pockets and the pockets of his Republican friends, not to mention his swamp creature inlaws, who suddenly no longer have money problems! They're doing so well his daughter doesn't have to pimp herself out to daddy anymore because they don't need him! I love it how under the influence of the Trumptard Hee-Haw set Republicans and their supporters have done a 180 from being so pro-America and pro-military and pro-law and order and now they're Russian fifth columnists who hate America, despise its government, hate its law enforcement agencies and want to get rid of its intelligence agencies. The Republicans are now the most anti-American group in America and masturbate to the thought of Putin in charge! Go play with yourself again, Hee-Haw boy!