Yeah, corps should pay about 12-20%, but Mel Hurtig's new book shows StatsCan proving that some big corps pay as little as 2%, some years they get away with paying nothing. Not a penny.
They got that idea from America, there is a ton of Yanque influence in this country, mostly in a bad way. Here taxes are higher, I am well below the poverty line and pay about 28% tax. It irks me, because when I first got here (to Canada) we had never fought a foreign war of aggression, and we touted the world over as peacekeepers. There were so many nice differences between America and Canada. Those differences are going fast. We have been in an illegal immoral war for years and years, and the average Canadian was so quick to take up the southern rhetoric of "support our troops". Yeah, I support them in demanding the government only asks them to give their lives if it is absolutely necessary. But we were warned about that, how the Canadian military would become a wing of the American. So yeah, I pay my taxes (although I have never once filed a return, for thousands of dollars they can do the paperwork themselves), and what do I get. I never go to the hospital. I don't drink milk or eat much meat (huge subsidies). I don't use the roads. I would not get UI if I asked with a 40% approval rate and a 9 billion dollar surplus.
It reminds me of home, but at least there we have a good reason to stop paying taxes. The federal reserve act, and constitutionally supported supreme court rulings show that the American system is as they say "Voluntary". It really gets me that I 'm back to paying my money for bombs to be dropped on brown people. Pack up the mule, we're fucking refugees of conscience again.
and that's me angry at the true north.
They got that idea from America, there is a ton of Yanque influence in this country, mostly in a bad way. Here taxes are higher, I am well below the poverty line and pay about 28% tax. It irks me, because when I first got here (to Canada) we had never fought a foreign war of aggression, and we touted the world over as peacekeepers. There were so many nice differences between America and Canada. Those differences are going fast. We have been in an illegal immoral war for years and years, and the average Canadian was so quick to take up the southern rhetoric of "support our troops". Yeah, I support them in demanding the government only asks them to give their lives if it is absolutely necessary. But we were warned about that, how the Canadian military would become a wing of the American. So yeah, I pay my taxes (although I have never once filed a return, for thousands of dollars they can do the paperwork themselves), and what do I get. I never go to the hospital. I don't drink milk or eat much meat (huge subsidies). I don't use the roads. I would not get UI if I asked with a 40% approval rate and a 9 billion dollar surplus.
It reminds me of home, but at least there we have a good reason to stop paying taxes. The federal reserve act, and constitutionally supported supreme court rulings show that the American system is as they say "Voluntary". It really gets me that I 'm back to paying my money for bombs to be dropped on brown people. Pack up the mule, we're fucking refugees of conscience again.
and that's me angry at the true north.
