Kafka Esq. posted:

Why did it go back to poo poo post? I definitely set it to Canada.

Kafka Esq. posted:

Why did it go back to poo poo post? I definitely set it to Canada.

Kafka Esq. posted:

Stephen Harper, King in the North.

Yahoo News posted:

'Raise taxes on the rich' is a verse straight from the NDP hymn books.
Well, according to a new Ipsos Reid poll released on Thursday, most of us feel that way:

Nine in ten (88%) Canadians ‘support’ (48% strongly/40% somewhat) the following resolution...the rich should pay more taxes. Just one in ten (12%) Canadians ‘oppose’ (3% strongly/8% somewhat) this resolution.

The survey also shows a similar proportion (89%) of Canadians also indicate they’d be ‘supportive’ (54% very/34% somewhat) of a ‘millionaire’s tax’, whereby families with a combined annual household income greater than $1,000,000 would pay a special or additional tax on all income over a million dollars.

The pollster also asked Canadians what they considered to be "rich". That answer —which might surprise you — is a household income of $195,000.

Gregory Thomas of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation says that raising taxes on the rich won't work in the long term. "The CD Howe Institute illustrated this recently in a study of Ontario’s tax hike [in their 2012 budget] for incomes over $500,000. CD Howe forecasts that hiking taxes to an effective rate of 49.73 per cent will bring the government extra revenue this year, because Ontario took taxpayers by surprise with the revenue grab," Thomas told Yahoo! Canada News.

"But within a few years, all that extra revenue will disappear, as taxpayers make adjustments, moving assets and income into other jurisdictions to avoid the high rates."

Charles Lammam of the Fraser Institute suggests higher personal income taxes would be a mistake and would lower our competitiveness in relation to the United States.

"Comparing our personal income tax system with the United States shows that our combined federal-provincial rates on upper-earners are generally higher than comparable rates down south. What’s worse, our marginal rates here kick in at relatively low levels of income. Consider that Canada’s top federal income tax rate applies to income beginning at CA$135,054 while the new top rate in the U.S. applies at US$400,000 for singles," he told Yahoo! in an email exchange.

"It is important to have competitive personal income taxes for many reasons. Doing so allows us to better compete with other countries in trying to attract and retain entrepreneurs, investors and skilled workers like doctors, lawyers, accountants and engineers.

"Higher income taxes are also a poor way to raise revenue to close budgetary deficits. Higher tax rates almost always lead to lower than expected revenues, in part since higher-income earners respond by arranging their affairs in a way that minimizes their tax burden. Revenues can also be lower because higher rates discourage additional income earning activity."

The poll was conducted online between May 16th and May 23rd, 2013 with 1,055 Canadians and is accurate to within +/- 3.4 percentage points.
Taxing statistics: (Source: Ipsos Reid)
- The top 1 per cent of income earners in Canada contribute 21.2 per cent of all federal, provincial and territorial taxes
- The bottom 20 per cent of income earners contribute just 1.6 per cent of all income taxes
- The bottom 50 per cent of Canadian earners pay approximately 17 per cent of all income taxes

Kafka Esq. posted:

(thanks hand knit)

Entropic posted:

You can take my child-smashing from my cold dead hands.

JoelJoel posted:

This isn't turning into a picture thread, is it? At the risk of not fitting in:

Doug Ford posted:

Toronto is in better fiscal shape than any other city in North America*

*citation needed

quote:

OTTAWA — International Development Minister Julian Fantino’s office has said it had nothing to do with the posting of two partisan letters to a government website — but new documents appear to contradict that statement.

On Jan. 12, a series of opinion pieces penned by Fantino appeared on the Canadian International Development Agency website. Two of them included political content, with the titles “Dear NDP: CIDA does not need your economic advice,” and “Liberals make promises, Conservatives get results.”

A few days later, when media and the opposition began to question the propriety of putting partisan material on a federal government website, the letters were quickly taken down.

“CIDA was asked to add appropriate web content and these were posted in error. CIDA has been asked to remove them immediately,” Meagan Murdoch said on Jan. 15.

But emails released to The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act show that Jo-Ann Purcell, a CIDA employee who worked directly inside Fantino’s office, was in the loop on the web content. Purcell acted as the main liaison between the department and the minister.

“Can you let me know what format/section of CIDA’s website these will be posted on? If possible, can you send a mock-up before posting all of them?” Purcell, then the senior departmental assistant in the minister’s office, asked in a Jan. 3 email with the subject line “Ministerial editorials.”

Part of Purcell’s email was withheld under the Access to Information Act because it apparently contained advice, recommendations, consultations and/or deliberations with officials or the minister. An email that followed directly afterward was also withheld for the same reasons.

Two items were posted by officials in error. CIDA was asked to remove them immediately and they did
Few additional details were forthcoming Wednesday from the minister’s office.

“CIDA was asked to add appropriate web content,” Murdoch said in an emailed statement that echoed her Jan. 15 reaction. “Two items were posted by officials in error. CIDA was asked to remove them immediately and they did.”

In the documents, bureaucrats told Purcell that the nine selected articles would have to go through a translation process. The minister’s office was then asked which order to put the articles in: “Would OMINE (the minister’s office) have a preference?”

On the day they went online, Jan. 12, Purcell wrote to the president of CIDA and other senior officials telling them “all” the material had been posted.

“OMINE (minister’s office) aware,” Purcell wrote, pasting links to the website.

Three days later, when media began questioning the letters on Twitter and calling CIDA, Purcell told confused bureaucrats to remove all the content from the web.

Officials from the Treasury Board Secretariat, which oversees the rules on non-partisan communications in the government, immediately got involved. Bureaucrats from the Privy Council Office — the prime minister’s department — had their hands in the communications response to media outlets.

And there seemed to be some concern from the Privy Council Office about just how much the minister’s office knew.

“We also need the email that was sent to the minister’s office advising them of this posting on Saturday,” wrote one PCO official.

A copy of Purcell’s redacted email of Jan. 3 was forwarded to the Privy Council in response.

blackswordca posted:

Looks like Mr. Duffy was fishing for some perks

This just gets more entertaining as time goes on. I'm thinking someone is moving into "Throw Mike Duffy under the bus" mode.

VR Cowboy posted:

Posted in the last half-hour of the old thread:

Baloogan posted:

Expand my role
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Kafka Esq. posted:

Why did it go back to poo poo post? I definitely set it to Canada.

DerDestroyer posted:

Joementum posted:

It's alright. I exported the poo poo post tag to Detroit so you can have your nice Canada one back.

Joementum posted:

It's alright. I exported the poo poo post tag to Detroit so you can have your nice Canada one back.

Joementum posted:

It's alright. I exported the poo poo post tag to Detroit so you can have your nice Canada one back.

Baloogan posted:

Her Royal Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith

Fine-able Offense posted:

Owner of the Best Teeth in the Realm

Baloogan posted:

Her Royal Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith

Baloogan posted:

Her Royal Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith

Baloogan posted:

Why do all these Canadian politicians embroiled in scandal look like rotund knavish liars?

ductonius posted:

You forgot "Paramount Chief of Figi"

Excelsiortothemax posted:

Is that how they determine rank in the UK? The quality of the teeth?

Here we base it off of how good you look in a cowboy hat.