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Should the government raise taxes on the rich?

Should Canada raise taxes on the rich?

Australia currently has a progressive tax system whereby high income earners pay a higher percentage of tax than low income tax. A more progressive income tax system has been proposed as a tool towards reducing wealth inequality.

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Response rates from 653k Canada voters.

67%
Yes
32%
No
62%
Yes
25%
No
5%
Lower the income tax rate and remove all existing tax loopholes for large corporations
4%
No, but lower taxes for the poor
0%
Yes, and raise taxes on all income brackets
1%
No, keep the current tax structure
1%
Reform to a flat tax

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 @9VDZDY9from Alberta  answered…5mos5MO

there shouldnt be a tax on your paycheck. we pay tax on everything we purchase so by taxing the paycheck then taxing what we pay after we get our check we pay more in taxes then we receive .

 @9ZCXM5Yfrom Alberta  answered…4mos4MO

Lower income tax on the middle and lower class raise income tax on people who make more than a million and raise income tax on billion and million dollar corporations, abolish all tax loopholes for the rich and corporations.

 @9ZXF48Xfrom Ontario  answered…3mos3MO

No, Canada should not raise taxes on the rich because they worked hard to get that money and to be wealthy.

 @9F4F8G8from Alberta  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, and remove any possible loopholes that are currently being used or could be used by large corporations

 @9CBKZDDfrom Ontario  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, especially on the highest tax brackets

 @8VSSTYWfrom Alberta  answered…3yrs3Y

Keep the current tax structure the same but learn how to spend better!

 @B3QNMWTfrom Ontario  answered…3 days3D

Billionaires should not exist. One person does not require that much wealth and it does nothing to promote our society. Anything over $300,000,000 should be taxed at 95% and the government should use that money to strengthen society.

 @B3LY7CDfrom New Jersey  answered…6 days6D

Keep current income tax policy, raise income tax bracket thresholds to match inflation but increase income taxes to a maximum of 35% of Canadians with $250,000+ annual income. Remove tax loopholes for all corporations including self-owned businesses and provide tax incentives for Canadian-sourced materials/labor. Abolish property tax for residential dwellings, excluding condominiums & high-rises.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…7mos7MO

War crime tourists pay $3,000 to see Ukraine’s horror

War Tours, pays a wage to its tour guides – who are refugees themselves – and regularly donates funds to the war effort. But some of his competitors appear to be raking in the cash: one week-long “war tour” package reportedly offered to tourists comes with a £3,000 price tag. Clients are from the US, Britain or “small European countries”, he says, and interest in tours has risen this summer. “I think they deserve to see what’s happening here because their governments support Ukraine, and they pay for that with their taxes,” he says, adding “people have a right to know how their money is spent.” It would seem that the Ukrainian government is also keen to attract visitors. In March, the country announced a campaign to attract tourists, saying it had the infrastructure and hotels to welcome foreign travellers, albeit when the war was over. “Any money that people will spend in Ukraine will help the economy to recover,” said tourism boss Mariana Oleskiv. More than 70,000 people visited the disaster-ravaged area in 2021, with numbers peaking at almost 125,000 in 2019, three years before the war broke out.“People are interested in seeing Bucha because it’s evidence of Russian aggression in their own eyes, rather than just through the media,” he explains. But “they also wanted to see destroyed Russian vehicles, and the different kinds of drones used by both sides, as well as the famous exhibitions in Kyiv”.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…4mos4MO

House Democrats Filibuster Flip-Flop: Keep It When the GOP’s in Charge, Kill It When We Are

Filibuster for me, but not for thee. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), an outspoken critic of the Senate filibuster, indicated Monday that she will not support axing the procedural hurdle as long as Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress. “Am I championing getting rid of the filibuster now when the Senate has the trifecta? No,” the chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. “But had we had the trifecta, I would have been, because we have to show that government can deliver,” Jayapal added. The Senate filibuster rule, which requires a 60-vote threshold to end debate and pass most types of legislation in the upper chamber, is seen as the best chance Democrats have at blocking the adoption of President-elect Donald Trump agenda – with Republicans taking a 53-47 seat advantage in the Senate and expected to retain a slim majority in the House. Jayapal, as recently as September, was pushing to “abolish” what she called the “Jim Crow filibuster.” “The filibuster was originally created *by mistake* in 1806,” she wrote on X. “Every day we don’t abolish it is just as big a mistake.”The Washington Democrat dislikes that the procedural tool makes it difficult for progressives to ram their agenda through Congress. “It’s the filibuster OR an assault weapons ban. It’s the filibuster OR codified abortion access. It’s the filibuster OR raising the minimum wage. It’s the filibuster OR protecting voting rights. The choice is clear. Abolish the Jim Crow filibuster,” Jayapal tweeted. The progressive rep argued Monday that passing a liberal agenda would’ve “built some trust with the American people.”“If we had had control of the trifecta and gotten rid of the filibuster to pass minimum wage, to pass paid sick leave, to pass many of these things that are passing – abortion access – that are passing on ballot measures that are so popular … then I think we would have built some trust with the American people,” Jayapal argued.

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