Quote from: formosan on May 01, 2024, 12:31:55 PMIn 2022, health care spending per person in Canada was $8563.00..

If we paid for health care the way Australia does that would mean the average Canadian earned about $270,000 per year, lol.

Yes, I realize public health care is unsustainable in Canada without major reforms.

Quote from: caskur on Today at 07:18:08 AMI gave a simple math equation going by an earnings of 100,000 because it's easy to work with...


I have been corrected the levy is %2 not 3%

So everyone pays 2% of their income in the Medicare pool.

I could have written it like this..

Income 100,000

Tax return 14,000

Medicare levy 2,000

Tax return cheque 12,000


I know quite a few rich people who have extremely handicapped children... why should Kurt and I have paid into Medicare for them when we were healthy and rarely visited a doctor?


Your argument doesn't hold up because you aren't thinking about what the Medicare levy does and who it helps obviously.

We pay for it by getting less tax return back... the money isn't even missed.

Quote from: caskur on Today at 07:18:08 AMI gave a simple math equation going by an earnings of 100,000 because it's easy to work with...


I have been corrected the levy is %2 not 3%

So everyone pays 2% of their income in the Medicare pool.

I could have written it like this..

Income 100,000

Tax return 14,000

Medicare levy 2,000

Tax return cheque 12,000


I know quite a few rich people who have extremely handicapped children... why should Kurt and I have paid into Medicare for them when we were healthy and rarely visited a doctor?


Your argument doesn't hold up because you aren't thinking about what the Medicare levy does and who it helps obviously.

We pay for it by getting less tax return back... the money isn't even missed.

Okay, so you admit not everybody pays the same for the same health care services. But, unfairness is exactly what you get when you pay for health care based on income. Nobody should be punished for having a better education and job.

Quote from: TheProwler on Today at 12:55:07 AMThat is all theater to highlight the importance of doctors.

Next thing you know, they will be saying they need to be paid more.  That is the end game.

Someone who is earning over $250K per year solely in Capital Gains does not need to be paid more.  And the benefit of sheltering one's investments under a corporation has less benefit now.

That is their real concern.

They are not hitting $250K in Capital Gains.  It is the investments they are sheltering in their corporations.

The investments in their corporations are already taxed at half the rate it would be if they paid themselves.

There is a shortage of doctors and those fuckin' weasels just want to take advantage of taxpayers.  The government should hire some business process analysts to optimize the operations in these private family doctor practices.  We could streamline their operations and justify a significant reduction in their government paid income.

Honestly, fuck them.

It's a retroactive tax on a group of professionals who do not have access to pensions, sick days or insurance. The vast majority of family doctors and just doctors in general in Canada are practicing through what's called a professional corporation. It's a retroact5ive tax on a group of professionals who do not have access to pensions, sick days or insurance.

A capital gain is the difference between the cost of an asset, a holiday home, an investment property, a stock or a mutual fund and its total sale price.

Right now, only 50 per cent of capital gains are taxable; the budget proposes to increase that "inclusion rate" from 50 per cent to two-thirds on capital gains above $250,000 for individuals.

I agree with Jessica Brandon-Jepp of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce's senior director of fiscal and financial services policy who said the capital gains hike could affect growth. This at a time when Canada is experiencing a productivity crisis.

Former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau also criticized the proposed changes to capital gains last week, saying it's "clearly a negative to our long-term goal, which is growth in the economy, productive growth and investments."

"This was very clearly something that, while I was there, we resisted. We resisted it for a very specific reason — we were concerned about the growth of the country," he said last week at a post-budget Q&A session with KPMG, one of the country's large accounting firms.

"I think we always have to recognize any measure that creates a disincentive for investment not only impacts us within the country but also impacts foreign investors that are looking at our country."

I gave a simple math equation going by an earnings of 100,000 because it's easy to work with...


I have been corrected the levy is %2 not 3%

So everyone pays 2% of their income in the Medicare pool.

I could have written it like this..

Income 100,000

Tax return 14,000

Medicare levy 2,000

Tax return cheque 12,000

Quote from: DKG on May 01, 2024, 07:20:12 AMHow on earth is one person perhaps paying several times more than another person for the same medical services not the polar opposite of fairness?

I know quite a few rich people who have extremely handicapped children... why should Kurt and I have paid into Medicare for them when we were healthy and rarely visited a doctor?


Your argument doesn't hold up because you aren't thinking about what the Medicare levy does and who it helps obviously.

We pay for it by getting less tax return back... the money isn't even missed.

Quote from: Thiel on April 29, 2024, 09:53:36 PMI lost no family or friends when I came out, though it was not a surprise to most people who knew me growing up. Coming out as a conservative in the gay community has meant being ostracized.

No it won't... there are more conservatives in your "community" than you think. 

Quote from: Herman on April 30, 2024, 12:00:08 AMMost of you people are died in the wool progs. Good for you for thinking for yourself.

Most of the homosexual men I know are conservatives... they aren't interested in parting with their money to support other peoples bastard children. They might homosexual but they aren't dumb.

Quote from: Thiel on April 29, 2024, 09:53:36 PMI lost no family or friends when I came out, though it was not a surprise to most people who knew me growing up. Coming out as a conservative in the gay community has meant being ostracized.

Most of the homosexual men I know of are conservative.... lesbians tend to be liberal.

I have tried to tell the conservative on line this about homosexual men but they don't listen to me.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2985646/californias-fast-food-minimum-wage-hike-is-backfiring/

A new study shows that raising the minimum wage actually resulted in more people becoming unemployed than people who got higher wages.  All people suffered from higher prices.

A pretty good discussion on the radical left.  I do believe they are correct that the current encampments/occupations for Gaza retards are essentially a leadership training and membership drive by the communists for further violent actions closer to the election.

https://www.youtube.com/live/gVqyDDJUNN0?si=7165vbH6PH0fsYBb

Americans increasingly worried about economy as election looms: poll

Immigration once again was the top issue of concern for Americans in April, but new polling shows worries about the economy are a strong second.

Source: Americans increasingly worried about economy as election looms: poll