From The Heart, Down.

29 Replies to “From The Heart, Down.”

1. No surprise there. This probably does not even include our beautiful new carbon taxes. Isn’t communism wonderful?

2. most distracting. Livine keeps coming on Too annoying.

3. Kleptocracy ,wage slavery.
   The parasites live large.
   here in Canadstan they also berate the peons for failing to save enough for their retirement.
   Call us tax cheats for being self employed.
   Denigrate us for failing to “respect” the wisdom of our betters.
   These “betters” who leave us indebted,unable to produce and declared criminal for daring to hire helpers.
   While they produce nothing useful,ever.
   But Oh how they love to take.

   1. Indeed, take the resources away from you to plan your own retirement, in fact go further and abscond with what’s left of your disposable income to take over your retirement, then deny it to you.

      Sounds like socialized medicine, no?

4. How much was lost to inflation, I am betting more than 6 cents.

   1. So inflation is currently 2.2%

      1. Good thing my wages have cost of living based on inflation added in.

      2. Yeah and the Low Income Cut-off is a poverty line. Both Bullshit.

         1. Yes, LICOs measure “relative inequality of income,” not the “poverty line,” nor income inequality.

            Stats Canada says this year after year but are ignored by the poverty apparatchiks.

            Put another way, we could all win a million bucks and the “poverty line” would remain unchanged.

            The tax system puts more into poverty than anything else, even notwithstanding its disincentives.

            Carbon taxes are the most insidious poverty inducing taxation, they can’t be escaped by low income.

5. But, but, but, we have to save the junkies! Free Naloxone kits to everyone! Shooting galleries with Lazyboys and relaxation areas, with plenty of paid staff to assist them in their dysfunction!
   Must…….save…….lives, at any cost!

   1. Don’t forget Winnipeg’s new “diversity garden”. $$$

6. that seems right. Some days I feel like Atlas pushing that taxation boulder up the hill.

   1. With a government paid worker by your side ,throwing banana peels under your feet the whole way 🙂

   2. Travis …. That was Sisyphus in Ancient Greek mythology. One of the other titans, Atlas, was holding up the sky on his shoulders for eternity.

      We portray him with globe on his back. That is incorrect. At that time they did not know that the world was a ball in space circling the sun.

      Now you know.

      1. I stand very much corrected.

   3. As JV said. Atlas did get a break when Hercules/Heracles shouldered the load for a bit, but got tricked into resuming the job while Hercules/Heracles “adjusted his grip”.

7. I remember my parents complaining about this when the Liberals were in power last time. The Liberals would loudly brag about a new program or tax change to help out the middle and working class while quietly increasing payroll taxes, changing income tax deductions, new fees, higher sin taxes etc. In particular, I remember complaints about the rather low level of income it took to fall into higher income tax brackets. The Liberals nickel and dime you to death while presenting themselves as champions of the middle class.

   It’ll be worse next year with higher CPP deductions, a mandatory federal carbon tax and it looks like there’ll be a Netflix tax. Probably not the best idea going into an election year.

   1. They’ll keep peeling that tax/statism onion until only a tiny, smelly useless core remains, taken for themselves. Then they’ll use that as justification to take it all.

8. Government is the reason we can’t have nice things.

9. Our governments are using taxes to punish companies and suck up almost every extra cent ordinary wage earners are making. The federal Liberals treat millions of small business people as if they were tax cheats

   We had that for 8-long years here in the States … I believe Obama called it “transforming America”. Lucky for US … we didn’t transform into Venezuela as easily as Canada.

10. I like Lorne Gunter, and I love the tag line of the government taking $0.94 out of every extra $1.00 earned (= 3.1% tax increase / 3.3% wage increase) because it mirrors the way many of us feel. But it is bad arithmetic and it will ultimately get you “busted” by the lefties if you repeat it. Do the simple math yourself. Consider a wage earner of $100,000 and a tax rate of 50% (=$50,000). 3.3% more wages = $3,300. 3.1% more tax = $1,550. This is only $0.47 extra tax for every $1.00 of wages.

    1. Yes, I too checked the Fraser Institute Study:

       “Between 2017 and 2018, the total tax bill of the average Canadian family increased by 3.1% ($1,541). Meanwhile, cash income increased at approximately the same rate, by 3.3% ($3,723).”

       Actual rate of increase in extra taxation: 1541/3723 = 41.3% increase the “average” (actually median) marginal tax rate of 33% = 46.6%, near or at the rates the “rich” currently pay.

       It won’t be long before we’re all “rich” tax purposes, especially if we own a home and dare to rent a suite out.

       The onion continues to be peeled. Remember in the 90s, before Martin’s tax cuts to keep the IMF from calling, the top federal marginal rate was 54%, on $60,000 (about $90,000) today.

       So clearly there is a lot more room to increase taxes, say the apparatchiks. Justifying it is immaterial to them.

11. Canadians voted for this.

    They score low on math scores. That works to the Canadian dictatorship’s advantage.

12. While I agree completely with the sentiment, the logic is incorrect. While incomes rose 3.3% and taxes rose 3.1%, they are starting at different bases. The only way the conclusion could be correct is if both the starting amount of income and the starting amount of taxes were equal. Sorry about that.

13. That is why the government has accountants, to figure out exactly how hard to squeeze without killing the source.

    1. Killing the source? They are insulated so it doesn’t concern them – they just pivot to “fairness.”

       And the sheep pay for the sheers and the shearers.

       How long before we all end up as mutton?

14. Big Government= Big Taxes. Canadians are some of the stupidest people on the planet.

    1. Agree with you there on the stupidity, we can’t even get a pipeline built to sell our plentiful oil and actually make some money. Oh wait, the lefties don’t want to actually work to get money.

15. Stupidity has consequences. Vote accordingly.