54% of Canadian income now goes to taxes (2.Viewing)

Add sales tax, gasoline tax, bs recycle taxes, property tax etc and a 200k salary is poverty line to raise a family.

Carbon and rainwater taxes means they tax the air, your farts, and the water we drink.

That's always been the Liberal Way. They can't wait to get into power and invent more taxes to steal your money.

It's also exacerbated by the fact the Libs never spend anything on infrastructure, sending most of the extra money to Quebec to shore up support, thereby leaving us with a crumbling society that is $300 billion and decades behind in creating public and private works like hospitals, schools, roads, bridges, etc. to match our pre-Trudeau population levels, all the while the Libs are flooding the country with millions of foreign students, foreign workers and immigrants per year.

And here we are today...

Good for Doug Ford for saying that. I feel like provincial and federal governments are at the limit of what they can tax us. There is no more available room for Canadians to be taxed more. The biggest problem is that government wastes and misspends a high amount of tax dollars they receive and keep borrowing money. If govt were more efficient and better stewards of tax dollars it would make a huge difference. No wonder gold and silver prices have risen so much.

The fact the Liberals had to scrap one carbon tax that was due to rise, and scrap changes to the capital gains tax, shows that government is at the limit. Getting reelected will be hard for any govt that increases taxes. Governments need to do better with the revenues they already get. Canada needs a DOGE.

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The biggest problem is that government wastes and misspends a high amount of tax dollars they receive and keep borrowing money.

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Trudeau really cooked us there - he took the entire debt load we've accumulated since confederation, and immediately DOUBLED it while in office. Yes, doubled it. The numbers are just beyond belief, and he was like a retarded child given free reign to waste money at an historically unprecedented rate, and he did, he really did.

Yet Canadians kept reelecting him over and over and over - must be something in the water up here to make people in some areas as dumb as rocks.

It's not just taxes. Think about the large (and growing) number of government workers with all their benefits and defined benefit pensions. How is the government going to be able to afford the public pension program? Imagine being a BC or Canadian government worker about to retire, and then looking at the books of the BC or Canadian government, and seeing how much debt they have and that it just keeps growing. That is who you are relying on to pay your pension for the next 40 years. Interest cost on govt debt is already significant and almost the same amount it spends on healthcare or education. As the govt debt grows, the interest payments increase - what if interest rates go up? What if we have a real recession and government revenues drop while the amount they spend has to increase? Even if you think its ok, they can raise taxes, how will the rest of the population feel about paying more taxes so a retired govt worker can enjoy a guaranteed pension for life, even if they worked a similar job to you in the private sector? Just one area that I don't think is sustainable or realistic, and one day the rubber will hit the road. Governments are going to have to be forced into being more fiscally responsible at some point.

I know someone who worked in a bc govt agency and the number of inept DEI hires had turned the office into a bunch of slackers just looking to collect gov't checks, all people with rampant "issues" who barely showed up to work and when they did, didn't do their jobs. The few competent people left in the office have either already left or are desperate to leave because they're the 10% doing 90% of the work. This is what your tax dollars are paying for but I'm sure the gov't just thinks, oh well, if we don't give them a paycheck, we'll be giving them gov't assistance anyways. That's their attitude. Canada definitely needs its own DOGE.

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I know someone who worked in a bc govt agency and the number of inept DEI hires had turned the office into a bunch of slackers just looking to collect gov't checks, all people with rampant "issues" who barely showed up to work and when they did, didn't do their jobs.

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That is a tenet of the Trudeau government - hire a bunch of unskilled, uneducated and unmotivated people that "check the right boxes" just to send out the proper virtue signals.

To get the "right kind of people" for a job, they start off the usual "university or college degree/diploma" requirement but no one in the applicant pool has that (those unicorns already have jobs). Then it's down to "HS diploma with some experience"... still none. Then just "HS diploma"... ooops, still no matches, then finally "some HS' and they'd hire a person who couldn't do the job and would never show up for work.

And these "special people" know they can't be fired (even in probation) as that would a) lose the virtue signal and b) make the gov't look bad if they ever went to the press. And if pushed to come to work, they suddenly go on short-term disability (for an existing substance abuse problem) and then long-term for their entire working career. You don't even need a doctor, you just say you have problems and it's okay.

So yes, the government is now a place where 5-10% of the employees do 100% the work, get stressed out and then take the early-retirement package that Carney is offering. That is, if they get the offer, as a lot of the "high achievers" in the government are being bypassed (after all, someone needs to do the work), while the "dead wood" has no reason to leave.