The experiment known as democracy has failed. Roll out the guillotines, we’re going back to the dark ages!
Sooooo anyone want to offer income tax cuts in favour of wealth taxes?
No…? No one…?
Weirdly, I don’t really want the tax cuts when we need the revenue but I’d prefer Carney to win regardless. And being the only viable candidate not offering tax cuts makes it a lot harder to be a winning candidate.
Same reason I disagrees with but supported dropping the carbon tax.
Mark Carney is old school conservative. Like, before they absorbed the old Reform/Alliance party and became far-right morally conservative nutjobs.
(The Liberals and The Conservatives and the NDP are Proposing Terrible Tax Cuts)
At least the NDP’s tax cuts are for the working class and to try to lower the cost of living. So not as terrible.
But honestly, any tax cut is bad at this point. The government needs revenue. However, we should be taxing wealthy people more.
Intuitively and morally, yup, tax the rich more. But, the flip side is that the wealthier you are, the more incentive you have and the easier it is to move. Many countries have discovered this.
It’s a serious problem but an incredibly difficult to solve.
Personally, I think bringing back more inheritance taxes would be helpful and less prone to capital flight but honestly, it’s a topic for smarter folks than myself.
They can keep running away to other countries, but at some point the other countries will catch up.
And it doesn’t stop other countries with higher taxes from doing business.
They can keep running away to other countries, but at some point the other countries will catch up.
What on Earth are you basing this on beyond wishful thinking? If someone rich leaves Canada for the States, your position is that America will suddenly undo decades of low taxation for funsies?
And it doesn’t stop other countries with higher taxes from doing business.
Are you talking about corporate tax rates? Or is this just a petulant “fine, we don’t want you and your billions of taxable dollars anyway!?!”
Yeah because it’s going so well for companies in the US right now. They’re paying extra in tarifs, their stock price is plummeting with the stock market, they’re losing millions in sales because the whole world is boycotting American businesses, and unless they suck up to Trump and the MAGAts they won’t get any help.
Also, I was talking about wealthy people initially. Not corporations. But yeah, we should try to collectively tax corporations more globally. But that’s another story.
Just so I understand, is your belief is that trump will do so badly that America will, despite decades to the contrary, raise tax rates on the wealthy to a point where they’d be comparable to us raising our highest tax rates?
Or are you just being a silly Billy?
No. You misinterpret what I’m saying and I don’t like your tone.
