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Pierre with hair says that his first bill will reduce taxes to the middle class. I’d be excited about this, but most of us aren’t middle class. —Pissed off and broke
This article appears in Nov 5-11, 2015.
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There will be economic impacts that will affect you positively OB. If you want more income, ensure your education and work hard.
I’ll take it!!!
The Liberals and NDP have as much affection and empathy for the Middle Class as a lamprey eel has for a particularly succulent looking trout.
Not to worry about being excluded, though – the so called tax breaks will probably amount to yet more opportunities to tax shelter disposable income which most people no longer possess.
On the plus side, we have “our canada” back, so rejoice. We’re free, again.
If they were serious about improving the poor, they would up the Basic exemption, married exemption, dependent exemption, allow all medical expenses, etc. They can formulate these exemption so the poor can actually meet the “living wage”. And if they ever did that, make the provinces meet the same challenge. I can live on my wages, it’s the taxes that pull us down.
I guess you’ll have to write a Conservative MP in Alberta, Tim. Oh, wait, 9 years of a Conservative government and they didn’t do any of those things either. In fact, Harper ran a deficit 8 years in a row after being handed a surplus government adding 150 billion dollars to the federal debt and balanced the budget, as a last ditch effort in the eleventh hour, by having a ‘fire sale’ of our assets and interests.
You two, Tim and Porta, have lots of complaints about the country/government, surely you aren’t stupid enough to think that the state of the country is Trudeau’s fault. I mean, he’s only been prime minister for 9 days and hasent even assembled the house for a parliamentary session yet. We gave Harper a decade and so far our dollar is worth 25% less than it was, corporate taxes have been slashed and a banking system, operating on the edge of disaster, that won’t survive the next looming recession without a massive bailout.
Strange, I never mentioned Trudeau. I have said this for many years, regardless of who was in power federally or provincially.
All of the parties kept talking about the Middle Class but I never heard an actual definition of what that was in 2015. I think ‘middle class’ is pretty much everyone these days, no?
@Cranky: here is a good explanation of economic classes in Canada:
http://www.macleans.ca/economy/money-econo…
Maybe one day this shitty city can rise up and join the middle class…
Living in NS, you should know by now, no tax breaks!
If federal lowers, provincial increases!
I don’t know why the lessons hasn’t stuck yet!