Average Canadian family spending more money on taxes than on food, clothing and

Do you PERSONALLY spend more on taxes then food, clothing, and housing *combined*


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westmanguy

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Average Canadian family spends more on taxes than necessities of life: survey

Average Canadian family spends more on taxes than necessities of life: survey


VANCOUVER (CP) - Taxes are taking a bigger chunk out of the average Canadian family income than food, clothing and housing combined, a new survey suggests.
The Fraser Institute says the Canadian Consumer Tax Index is up significantly in the past 45 years.
The average Canadian family earned $63,000 in 2006, with nearly 45 per cent of that going to taxes.
Just over 35 per cent was spent on food, clothing and housing.
In 1961, the institute says just 33.5 per cent of income went to taxes.
The tax index includes direct taxation, such as income taxes, sales taxes, Employment Insurance and Canadian Pension Plan contributions, as well as hidden taxes, such as import duties, gas taxes and excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol.

http://ca.news.finance.yahoo.com/s/...ily-spends-taxes-necessities-life-survey.html

Wow, just wow... nice having all our money go to corrupt governments that waste it!
 
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hermanntrude

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taxes ARE a neccessity of life. You can't live in a place with roads and garbage collections and prison services and police and running water and gas and electricity and sewerage without paying for it.

stop moaning and pay up.
 

Kreskin

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The GST replaced the Manufacturers and Federal Telecommunications Sales taxes. Would those two taxes have been calculated in the 1961 comparison? They weren't taxes paid directly by the average Canadian back then.

Import duties? I just bought a guitar on ebay from the US. No duty. There was before the NAFTA. I wasn't even charged provincial or GST by Canada Customs.
 

westmanguy

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I am not saying ``No taxes!``. I like you, believe we need taxes for roads, hospitals, police, fire fighters, etc.

But the rate is what annoys me!

We spend almost half of what we make a year on taxes!

Any nation that takes half of a person`s income has got some socialist issues.

Personally, privatize some services, and lower it down to 30%

I think 30% is reasonable over all tax for federal, provincial, municipal
 

hermanntrude

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God, no. The Uk tried some privitisation. Total disaster. Keep stuff public, whatever you do.

Anyway it's not like the taxes make you poor... you can afford the twenty bazillion cable channels and your internet connection, I assume you have food and heating and so on
 

BitWhys

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Personally, privatize some services, and lower it down to 30%
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Newflash. All levels of government already collect less than 34% of GDP, as reported by the OECD. As usual the Fraser Institute is full of ****.
 
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DurkaDurka

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I don't like income taxes anymore then the next guy, but I have got to the point where I ignore the deduction. When I get old, I plan on milking the health system for every tax dollar I ever contributed plus interest. Hello bionic man.
 

L Gilbert

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God, no. The Uk tried some privitisation. Total disaster. Keep stuff public, whatever you do.

Anyway it's not like the taxes make you poor... you can afford the twenty bazillion cable channels and your internet connection, I assume you have food and heating and so on
Yeah, BC tried privatising some stuff and it flopped in a big way. The only one I've ever seen that could figure out which services should be private, which ones should be public, and how to keep the public ones running somewhat efficiently was WAC Bennett. Barrett, Vander Zalm, and the rest all suck badly at handling private/public services.
 

westmanguy

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Yahoo is a major website, with lots of hits, they wouldn`t but a disputable article up!
 

Kreskin

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Yeah, BC tried privatising some stuff and it flopped in a big way. The only one I've ever seen that could figure out which services should be private, which ones should be public, and how to keep the public ones running somewhat efficiently was WAC Bennett. Barrett, Vander Zalm, and the rest all suck badly at handling private/public services.

If I remember correctly, when Vander Zalm was mayor of Surrey he required everyone receiving a welfare cheque to either bring in a doctor's note saying they couldn't work, be permanently disabled or they had to perform community service. He wasn't afraid to push the envelope, though as Premiere he kind of got lost in Fantasy Gardens.
 

BitWhys

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hmm... you don't really believe that do you? It's not like there is a human reviewing every news feed supplied to them by the AP & reuters.

Its more fundamental than that. The news media and the Fraser Institute have the same sponsors. Stovepipe or starve.