Sun- Canada should stop taxing food altogether
Ending the GST/HST on all food is one of the simplest, fairest and most effective measures the federal government can take immediately
Sun- Canada should stop taxing food altogether
Ending the GST/HST on all food is one of the simplest, fairest and most effective measures the federal government can take immediately
Leftists are too stupid to understand that people live off their net income and not their gross….they seem oblivious to the impact of taxes. For example, take the ongoing whining about minimum wage. If you take a look at a situation where the minimum wage is raised from $15 to $20 an hour you will find some interesting things….for example, in terms of percentage increases it is not the employee who gets the biggest increase, but GOVERNMENTS…..in fact, if you use the Alberta deduction tables you find that the net of the employee goes up just over 25% while the feds get an increase in federal taxes by almost 75% and the provincial government gets almost 100% increase. Of course there is also the increases to CPP and EU…..and every bloody cent comes out of the pocket of the employer. I get so sick and tired of governments pretending they are altruistic in increasing minimum wage when on a percentage basis, they are the biggest winners.
Elitist fckers like Carney would take all our earnings and then put us in breadlines if they could.
Liberals hate us.
All of us.
They do not hate us; they disdain us. Only first class globalists want to beat down the masses back to serfdom; our globalists are merely second class.
There was a time Ontario exempted fast food below $4 of tax. Do that again but make it $10. If I buy water, no tax. But if I buy a can of club soda, tax.
Food and energy are two essentials for human existence. Remove all taxes on energy as well.
No gst on beer would be a nice touch as well.
A question for my Canadian friends:
“Have your food costs changed significantly between April 2025 and the present?”
Here’s why I’m asking. In April 2025 the Federal Fuel Tax (carbon tax) was removed from trucking companies. The tax generated billions for the Federal government. As a result of this reduction in significant costs to the trucking companies (which are a major part of your supply chain) there should have been an adjustment to distributors and retailers, thus lowering the cost of those items being transported. If no reduction was noticed, then it was either offset by rising inflation, or the supply chain kept their transport costs where they were prior to April 2025 (likely in anticipation of the re-application of that tax, or to make up for what was lost previously).
I’ve noticed no downward change in costs associated with any food items, regardless of it being food my grandmother would have eaten, or the processed slop which is sold these days.
The only cost changes I’ve noticed are upwards, coupled with packaging of some items into smaller packages, example: PC French Roast coffee beans at Superstore/Shoppers has been reduced by 20gm to 800gm in the most recent shipment from world coffee headquarters. It’s a small matter, a couple of years ago it was 875gm so this isn’t the first time, it’s gradual but constant.
2 years ago these were $12-$15 and last month rose from $20 to $25… I know the coffee crop has had some problems so it’s not all for inflation.
On what used to be Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida? now) just south of the Alaska panhandle, this same coffee is $50 now.
The only cost changes I’ve noticed are upwards, coupled with packaging of some items into smaller packages…
AKA, shrinkflation.
“Have your food costs changed significantly between April 2025 and the present?”
Yes. They have gone up. Meat, significantly, especially beef. On the order of 20% or more.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810024502&pickMembers%5B0%5D=1.11&cubeTimeFrame.startMonth=10&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=2024&cubeTimeFrame.endMonth=10&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2025&referencePeriods=20241001%2C20251001
No, you’ll also notice that a lot of categories went up between April and May
There is only one truly justifiable tax, and that is on all monetised transactions above a certain minimum (for efficiency, not out of pandering to the poor). The dollar represents the nation’s many attributes that in total impact on every aspect of a citizen’s life, justifying a National Advantage Tax. The principle of “no taxation without representation” would then be turned around, driving home the realisation that the tax rate will change as you (every citizen) vote .. or pass up your opportunity.
Wait! If you simply started eating a … “plant based diet” … and stopped eating “highly processed foods” … then you wouldn’t pay tax on your food. See … if you just stopped “sinning” … like drinking booze … you wouldn’t need to be taxed by all the do-gooders.
Right, well if I apply for an exemption to the Ministry of Compliance (Secretario de Cumplimiento en California) and am denied, then I’ll be an outlaw.
Sometimes, I’ll pour a shot of Bushmills Black Bush onto whichever slab of red meat I’m grilling to help keep the growls at bay.
That sounds like a cardiotoxic diet. Sorry … too soon?
The kind of diet I love most.
It’s never too soon.
From what I’ve been obsessed with reading in the past week, and knowing what happens to folk’s brains after consuming statins to lower cholesterol for heart function, when that’s the major part of what contributes to one’s brain function, knowing that my mom’s thought processes are just not there after taking statins for +25 years, sometimes she smiles at the Tv now and again… I’m thinking a much more meat diet is in my future. And I love carbs, I could seriously eat a diet of 80% carb calories and 2 quarts of orange juice every day forever… but that’ll probably kill me. So much more red meat, sometimes with a bit of Bushmills splashed on it is looking more certain. I’ll figure out what works at least though the first half of 2026, my will power is solid.