The use of personal income tax to gather revenue for a government to pay for public programes needs to go the way of the Dotto Bird.
Dodo Bird, not Dotto.... nor Blotto.
right now the average Canadian is paying about 46 % of his or her income in taxes of some sort. the more you work the more you are taxed so how can you get ahead. A push for the ban of taxes on your income must be instituted. how do we pay for all our social programs you ask. We pay with an all level tax replace all provincial taxes and government taxes with an all level tax. a tax of about 18% on all items bought by company's and personal items. The money you earn is not taxed until you spend it User fees on health care and basic government services would be increased. All money you make you can save or spend it as you will. All Ltd companys would go from 28 % tax to a 10 % income tax. The whole country would benefit from such a tax structure. Its time Canadians stood up for them selves.
Now, if it was really that simple, don't you think someone else would have brought this up years ago and changed the whole process?
The problem is that making some 18% tax to toss on everything, thus equal for all, isn't equal at all when you consider the single parents working, low income, people doing two part time jobs to make ends meet, students, etc. ..... will suffer more of an impact in increased prices on the products they buy, then the big wiz in a suit who got to keep all their millions of dollars with nothing being touched.
As it stands now, anybody making less then a certain amount of money a year do not have any taxes taken off of their yearly income.....
BECAUSE THEY'RE PISS-ASS POOR!
And that is also why the more rich you are, the more taxes you have taken off....... call it a redistribution of wealth if you want, but for the longest time, the government only taxes people what they should be able to afford.
What you're proposing is a much larger divide between the rich and the poor, because that's exactly what would happen with your wonderful idea.
And since the majority of Canadians are not rich and since the majority of Canadians would be negativity affected by your idea more then they'd benefit, chances are, that's why your idea isn't being used already.
Thanks for playing though.
Whose cherry-picking? One consumption tax and that's it.
Bullshyt. Just try and stop buying food or clothing. Think it through.
And yet, if people took the time and effort to train themselves, they could not only grow and cook their own food, but also make their own clothes, thus avoiding a crap load of those taxes......kind of like how the government couldn't figure out how to properly tax and regulate marijuana, minorities were growing it and selling it themselves, it was simple and easy to reproduce...... so since they couldn't get control over it, they labeled it evil and banned it..... citing that it was just as bad as Heroin, Cocaine and would turn people into insane sex crazed murderers.
And yet people still grow, sell and use it and nothing really changed except the government labeling these people as horrible criminal scum out to ruin society.
Now some in here propose that they get rid of property taxes and income taxes..... and make one large tax on everything you buy.
Guess what happens in that environment?
Society begins to look at what they can do for themselves to save even more of their money, they begin to grow and reproduce their own foods and products, you have someone selling decently designed and made clothes at the local flea market like an old lady and her knitted mittens..... they make even more money, then you head over to the next person who has all their fresh veggies and fruits to buy..... they're not a business, they're just your local Joe at your local flea market selling some of his stuff to other local fellows.
Meanwhile the government is freaking out, wondering where it's going to get the money it requires to fix our roads, schools and keep our hospitals running, so it either has to bring back the old way of taxing....... or they end up banning flea markets and un-registered trades and transactions between private citizens and turn your old lady selling her knitted mittens into a harden criminal out to destroy society.
Game Over.
Just look at the stink some local governments are making over people wanting to raise their own chickens and eggs.... citing crap like them attracting rodents
(so do bird feeders), they're noisy
(so are people's car alarms that go off every damn day or the neighbors' dog), they basically try to make these things out to be the worst scourge on society using baseless arguments and tactics because these people are starting a trend.
A trend that isn't much of an impact on company's profits and the government's taxes just yet...... but if about 50% of the population started doing this and going back to our old ways of being more independent...... what do you suppose would happen to those profits for the company selling farmed eggs and chickens, or the tax money the government takes for granted?
They'll start spreading the fear mongering that it's immigrants coming from 3rd world countries with their 3rd world ideas, quickly turning our country into a 3rd world..... citing how the roads are crap, medical treatment has sunken to a new low, companies are going out of business and people are losing jobs..... all because some people are going back to living in huts, burning their own wood stoves, growing their own food and practically living off the grid, thus no taxes.
They'll argue that without these taxes, we can not have a society..... so therefore anybody who is found doing any of the above acts and thus, not contributing to society via taxes,
are criminals.
They don't want to do this and they wish these people would see reason..... but they have no choice because they have society's best interests at play and it's their duty to protect use simple folk from our simple selves.
Just like it's their duty to protect us simple folk from buying native/contraband cigarettes, because you don't know what's in them
(most of us don't know what's in regular cigarettes either, besides tobacco), that 150% tax money per pack of smokes isn't going to roads and education and your money
is going to criminals!
Sound familiar?
