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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Second, if you’re making $1M on capital gains in a year, you’re not upper middle class or lower upper class - or whatever ‘they’re not that rich’ argument you intend.

    they really aren’t that rich in the grand scheme of things… they’re not buying off politicians, or sending armies of lobbyists to ottawa. they’re not propping up our monopolies and leaving toxic tailing ponds with millions in cleanup costs

    i get it if people are really struggling and a cardiac surgeon or small business owner looks like a big bad rich person who needs to be taxed. but westons, rogers, and irvings in this country are happy to sit and watch while we go after these small potato rich folk while leaving them the continue pillaging the country

    These taxes also catch, probably as they are intended to, people making 10 million or 100 million

    anyone that rich has really good accountants and asset hiding schemes. they’re not paying taxes anyways.


  • i agree that the rich need to be taxed, but i don’t think taxing these rich people is what will solve most of our problems… taxing a few thousand rich people who made $1M on stocks or whatever is a drop in the bucket compared to our real problems.

    what are the real problems? billionaire oligarchs plundering our country. what are the exact steps to fix the problem? i’m not smart enough to figure it out. but we can start by ending corporate handouts, or things like oil companies sticking us with the cleanup bill when the leave town. fix price gouging on groceries and telecoms. i think actions like these are going to have a huge impact on the prosperity of working canadians versus an increase in a capital gains tax on the moderately rich.