The last thing any municipal ratepayer in this country needs is for their city to gain the ability to get their hands on your income. Income taxes are outrageously high as it is and adding another predatory level of government into the mix will only make that worse. But that doesn’t stop socialist think tanks from proposing such nonsense, which is then uncritically regurgitated by the leftist corporate media.
Macdonald believes the City of Vancouver alone could net a further $100 million annually if it could collect a one per cent tax on annual incomes over $56,000.
The CCPA needs to be destroyed. F*cking bunch of marxist filth.
I still remember back in the 80’s when CCPA said there was no such thing as debt, because: “it’s money we owe to ourselves”.
Even as a slightly left-leaning young man, I knew this was utter nonsense.
If debt was money owed to ourselves, why did I have to pay to the bank money owed against my debt on houses, vehicles, etc.???
That’s an outstanding twist on reality. I owe it to me, so hey! no worries…
And yet, the gullible uneducated masses that are indoctrinated by the CBC and other left leaning media organizations without and balanced journalism or reporting believed this. And look where we are now.
I believe the world would be much better off without people like MacDonald. Greedy rapacious communists need to be removed from civil society.
MacDonald definitely confuses communist with economist.
Bloodletting won’t cure the patient, assholes.
Higher governments “downloading” on cities means cities do everything but blame the guy who is already paying the three levels.
It beggars belief that these “economists” are even given a voice.
They probably think you solve housing and healthcare by letting in more migrants.
New sources of revenue must be found since the national Treasury has been looted by fraud, corruption and money laundering at the hands of the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government and their buddies.
Technically, the recommendations are coming from third parties and not the Trudeau government but we all know that the Liberal government funds most of these groups. Then the government funded groups produce the report the government wants and the government funded media pushes the narrative with the aid of government funded academic “experts”.
That’s the pattern for everything from economic policy to environmental policy, to education policy to social policy, etc…Trudeau government funded think tanks, Trudeau government funded media, Trudeau government funded experts, Trudeau government funded consulting firms, Trudeau government funded charities, Trudeau government funded activists, Trudeau government funded universities and researchers. All working together to gaslight you about the brilliance of Trudeau government policies.
I’m in total agreement.
Canadian’s are just pigs in a trough for funding these imbeciles with absolutely no rights to say no more.
Imposed by they’re advisory council rather than actually getting reality from the public.
Is it a wonder you can’t trust a single word as it’s all show and no real people who are actually trained in their fields are consulted and at times prosecuted.
We really have a massive amounts of resources in everything but our politicians have lied and lied to fake that we have none available.
The unbelievable amount of technology totally wasted as they aren’t doing anything real.
As in inventory assessment.
Remember what Trudeau’s PMO promised the then attorney general during the SNC scandal.
“Katie Telford, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff, is said to have attempted to allay fears about actions Wilson-Raybould could take with regard to SNC Lavalin.
“If Jody is nervous, we would of course line up all kinds of people to write op-eds saying that what she is doing is proper” is what Wilson-Raybould’s chief of staff Jessica Prince recalls Telford saying.”
That is how we, the voters, are being continually manipulated by the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government. So, when you see experts, editorials and opinions that support the Trudeau government’s policies…there’s a good chance they’ve been arranged by the Trudeau government through the PMO staff (Prime Minister’s Office).
“New sources of revenue must be found…..”
Agreed, but no way that green communist fop in Ottawa will let us drill.
Arguably the richest country in the world in raw natural resources of all types, and the stupid populace grasps for carbon cheques once every quarter in Oliver Twist like fashion. Unbelievable.
Yes, it’s obscene. We could become an energy and mining superpower, an ethical energy and mining superpower. Good jobs with royalties, income taxes and corporate taxes rolling in to pay down debt and fund legitimate government functions. But, no, we are instead an economy of real estate, government handouts/bailouts, government public service jobs, government welfare and government protected cartels.
Pathetic. Thank you Toronto, Quebec and Atlantic Canada. You’ve voted Canada into government induced poverty.
Don’t forget to thank Vancouver.
Yep. To top it off, British Columbia used to be the top ranked mining destination in the world but Vancouver and area voters have shackled their own mining industry and gone all-in on an ever-inflating real estate bubble in southern BC.
100% LC … and let me add that our public coffers are being looted by show-up-do-nothing jobs and gold-plated pensions that have siphoned off all the revenues collected for PURPOSE and wasted on anything BUT.
Here in CA … we are having to levy NEW taxes to pay for the services and infrastructure that aren’t being handled anymore. Yes, we are being LOOTED by public employee grifters.
For many years these malignorant fiends have been stripping away half of everyone’s productivity, yet the country is 1.2 trillion in debt. Explain that to me.
The lamp posts are wanting.
Helicopter rides my friend, Helicopter rides,lol
Answer: They NEVER planned on paying back any debt.
Infinite borrowing and infinite spending.
UTOPIA
That being the case, why bother collecting taxes when gubbermint can borrow its way to perfection?
Answer: to Penalize the Productive
Saw that headline yesterday and immediately thought “THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE CRAZIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN”
ONLY in Canada
Chow wants to tax the rain. There isn’t a revenue source too outrageous for these commies.
Fat tax can’t be too far away.
They need to buy more hotel and motel rooms with the funds.
Any building must follow the years of infrastructure like water and sewer before any buildings are approved for building. Same with individual homes need an expensive sewer system installed.
Is it any wonder we have a massive house shortage and it’s getting worse.
Not better.
Only to those who self-identify, otherwise it would be fat-shaming.
Toronto Chairman Chow wants to implement rain tax
https://thecountersignal.com/toronto-mayor-chow-wants-to-implement-rain-tax/
Well somebody has to fund all the CCP operatives she is giving tax payer money to!
l will keep repeating it.
pollllllitiSHUNS. famous for ‘solving’ one problem by CREATING THOUSANDS MORE.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
A FAR-LEFT,Marxist, socialist,group that couldn’t figure out how to earn a dollar without reaching into the pockets of others.
Googled earlier.
“Left leaning”. The competitive ideology is “far right”.
So I ‘spose in the interest of consistency they would be described as “near left”.
I’m pretty sure NYC was doing that for a length of time. Additionally, they were applying City Tax to non-residents who commuted. So, you we nailed with your Federal Taxes, State Taxes, Local Municipality taxes, Non-resident NYC taxes, and I’m pretty sure the threshold on a “city income tax” was also applied, but with a higher threshold than $56,0000.
In 2022, they received $522,208.00 from the Federal government and $617,255.00 from other “charities” to produce their marxist screeds about how people who are already paying over 50% of their income in taxes, should pay more taxes.
They also seem to have people “donating” to them, and managed to lose money (expenses exceeded revenue) which is not at all surprising, given their positions.
Why can’t we just tax ourselves?
Better still is why don’t we just indenture ourselves directly to the people we elect, wouldn’t that greatly simplify things.
Why would anyone invest in Canada?
I think I read somewhere that Vancouver is the only municipality in B.C. that can directly take on debt without permission from the provincial and regional governments. As a result, they are operating way into the red. But, municipalities nearest to Vancouver (which do have to seek permission before taking on debt) are operating in the black. Is this true?
And if it is true, how come the right of center aisle folks don’t leverage such obvious mismanagement as a fundamental campaign focus?
Maybe it’s satire – after all, MacDonald did call it “The modest proposal…” (although he doesn’t appear to be that Swift).
Very VERY good L Glas.
A SDA veteran welcomes you aboard.
My fave line contained the phrase, IF THEY WANT IT.
One durable lesson I learned from my 40 years of libertarian/Austrian school readings is that whom we call economists are almost always more accurately called government economists.
In Calgary, the city already has a tax they’re keeping quiet about. It somehow managed to get a share of the utility bills, from which they rake in crazy money when rates are high.
Aside from being the scum of the earth for somehow pulling this off, it also creates a conflict of interest with the people they supposedly serve.
Vancouver tried to charge people to park in front of their own houses, on streets their tax dollars paid for. Time to stop taxing and start cutting budgets. Let’s start with consultants.