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

Joe's ideas of left and right are highly skewed.

He's a product of sub room temperature parental IQ's,, fetal alcohol syndrome, lead paint chip poisoning as a tot, the MMR jab, and the incel nature of his 60 years as an adult on the earth.

I have nothing but admiration for ThielT ...

He's adopted one of perhaps biggest window lickers (obviously Seaboobs and Admong take 1st and 2nd place).

Quote from: TheProwler on Today at 01:03:58 AMThis whole issue is being blown out of proportion.

And while it might appear that popular opinion is against it, remember that people vote anonymously.

Most people like Senile JOEJ will tend to like this policy because he has the "stick it to the elite" mentality.  There are a lot of people with that mentality.  They know it will never affect them, so they like it.  So while they follow the pack on this like Senile JOEJ and talk like they are against it, secretly they support it.

Politically, I think this is a winning position for the Liberals and I think the Conservatives are fucking up by making it a bigger deal than it really is...

Actually TheProwlerT he Prowler - I am and have traditionally been a Liberal voter in Canada. However, I think they are and have been fucking up in their last term/mandate.

Also, it is a mistake to mention or introduce new taxes in a runnup to an election year.

I'm not pleased with the way Trudeau and the Liberals are running the country.

They overimmigrated, overspent and of course now the bills have come due.

It's rather self evident after the Pandemic ended, they should have just shut off the tap & become more fiscally conservative in their approach.

Conservatives don't like it when I criticize their policies.
But Liberals don't like it either.

I just try to be as objective as I can.
And so I call them out.

And I'm afraid as a traditional Liberal voter, the Liberals and Trudeau don't deserve another chance this time Prowler. It actually pains me to say that but it is the truth.

Scandinavians - who are often thought of as a Socialist Paradise - compared with the Liberal/Ndp coaltion in Canada, are actually quite fiscally responsible. They either manage to balance their budgets or else keep the gdp to debt ratio low.

They realize that Socialism, social programs and mass immigration cost money.

The politicians who implement expensive programs and subsequent tax hikes should think before they do and passing the bill off to the taxpayer.