Gap between rich and poor widens in Canada
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People giving money to charities and your confusion as too how the amount can be so high.
My confusion remains to be seen, but certainly less than yours. I said charities, you brought up churches which is just one charity of thousands. Am I wrong in surmising that the greatest number of donations to churches is comprised of a couple of dollars in the collection plate? There are several kinds of links!
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Mmmmmm! Those look good. Artery clogging, but good.People giving money to charities and your confusion as too how the amount can be so high.
Yep, definitely artery clogging, especially the ones to his brain! :lol:
AND what is the accumulated total of individual deposits to collection plates of all the churches in Canada? :smile:
The point I was taking issue with is that the average charitable donation is $600 (that figure would be derived by dividing the total amount donated by the number of donations) and I think the number is far lower than that given the vast number of donations consisting of change dumped in kettles and collection plates. Also schools raise a lot of money donated by the students a nickel and a dime at a time.
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Now Now! Play nice. Do I always have to play referee?
The government should revoke all religious tax exempt status. Religion is just business. They should only get tax exemption for money spent on charitable work.
Since churches do have tax exemption I guess it would be near impossible to get any kind of figure on what the average annual donations would work out to.
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You're a good referee, Cliff, but I can understand how it can be challenging at times. :lol:
Education, education, education. Teach a man to fish.
Beyond that, we can look at codetermination laws to give workers more of a voice in company operations.
Also, we can look at making cities more poor-friendly by building more walking paths and cycling paths between residential and business areas of the city.
May be often true, but certainly not always as yoyu seem to be trying to portray the situation.
I'm beginning to wonder if that wasn't the average total claim per income tax return consisting of the sum of several donations? :smile:
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The further the gap widens between the rich and the poor the further our society deteriorates.
BTW what kind of moron thinks the rich are taxed enough? There have been rich people like Bill Gates admitting they don't get taxed enough and some even saying they should be taxed more.
BTW what kind of moron thinks the rich are taxed enough? There have been rich people like Bill Gates admitting they don't get taxed enough and some even saying they should be taxed more.
Actually Cliffy that information is available on the CRA website. They post the returns that charities file, you can look it up. All you need is the name of the charity.
They all have to file an Information Return. And I've prepared them for a church before. And yes it all counts as donations, although it's "non-receipted" donations I believe on the return.