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News: Canada Talk | Here comes the refugees! 25k by end of year
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Originally posted by Hollywood.
Yeah it will. Businesses will all raise their prices if they have to pay their employees more money.
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And they'll have more customers, because more people have spare money to spend.
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Originally posted by Hollywood.
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Good.
Taxing the corporates is scary, in conjunction with federal minimum wage to $15. They fail to understand that $15 can mean differently in regards to the quality of life in each province.
Scary to tax the corporations more, when we know that private companies keeps the economy thriving.
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Okay, I admit.. I kind of like what Mulcair stands for.. Lowering income taxes a bit. He's bae during his peak days But no, I'm already taxed way too much as it is, and I don't even have a real job.
I'm happy that KING Stephen Harper WANTS to save me taxes by creating the No Tax Savings Account, and FOUGHT hard to increase the yearly limit to $10,000 a year! I'm clearly going to put all my money in there.
It's ridiculous that once you are taxed out of your savings, you get taxed even more on your RRSPs. I mean what kind of a scam. I took out my RRSP back in the day for $3000, and I only received $2600 to pay off college tuition for a semester.
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Originally posted by ABEL-o-matic
ddddd;;;;
Okay, I admit.. I kind of like what Mulcair stands for.. Lowering income taxes a bit. He's bae during his peak days But no, I'm already taxed way too much as it is, and I don't even have a real job.
I'm happy that KING Stephen Harper WANTS to save me taxes by creating the No Tax Savings Account, and FOUGHT hard to increase the yearly limit to $10,000 a year! I'm clearly going to put all my money in there.
It's ridiculous that once you are taxed out of your savings, you get taxed even more on your RRSPs. I mean what kind of a scam. I took out my RRSP back in the day for $3000, and I only received $2600 to pay off college tuition for a semester.
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Ummmm you do know that Mulcair is only going to raise taxes on huge corporations? Literally no income tax is going to be raised. One of the reasons people are in so much trouble is because Harper has been worse for the economy than any primeminister since 1960...
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Originally posted by vanishingbee
And they'll have more customers, because more people have spare money to spend.
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I am all for raising the minimum wage, just $15/hr seems a little high. And you won't really have any extra money if the price of everything goes up with your income? I remember when I lived in BC and they raised the minimum wage by 75 cents, the first two months I had less hours at work (they cut hours to make up for the lost revenue from a higher wage), so I actually had less money than before.
I think $12.50/hr would have been a more reasonable.
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Originally posted by Hollywood.
I am all for raising the minimum wage, just $15/hr seems a little high. And you won't really have any extra money if the price of everything goes up with your income? I remember when I lived in BC and they raised the minimum wage by 75 cents, the first two months I had less hours at work (they cut hours to make up for the lost revenue from a higher wage), so I actually had less money than before.
I think $12.50/hr would have been a more reasonable.
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I think 12.50 to 13 is the sweet spot. $15 for a minimum wage is absurd. Think of how many academic graduates are earning the same amount of money as a Tim Hortons cashier is making. Isn't it a little insulting? Why would for example an IT technician make the same amount of money a coffee boy is making on a regular basis?
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Originally posted by vanishingbee
Ummmm you do know that Mulcair is only going to raise taxes on huge corporations? Literally no income tax is going to be raised. One of the reasons people are in so much trouble is because Harper has been worse for the economy than any primeminister since 1960...
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That's the exact reason why it's scary. More taxes on corporations, means lay offs, in the thousands, and they want to include a $15 minimum wage to that? Good luck, economy. It's already hard for big corporations to branch into Canada because of high tax, how do you expect them to react if they are taxed even more?
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Originally posted by ABEL-o-matic
I think 12.50 to 13 is the sweet spot. $15 for a minimum wage is absurd. Think of how many academic graduates are earning the same amount of money as a Tim Hortons cashier is making. Isn't it a little insulting? Why would for example an IT technician make the same amount of money a coffee boy is making on a regular basis?
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I agree. Though some Tim Hortons out west already pay their employees $14/hr.
Cineplex doesn't even pay their managers that high.
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Originally posted by Hollywood.
I am all for raising the minimum wage, just $15/hr seems a little high. And you won't really have any extra money if the price of everything goes up with your income? I remember when I lived in BC and they raised the minimum wage by 75 cents, the first two months I had less hours at work (they cut hours to make up for the lost revenue from a higher wage), so I actually had less money than before.
I think $12.50/hr would have been a more reasonable.
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$15/hr is chosen because it's how much you need to be paid to work 44 hours a week and not live below the poverty line. You shouldn't be working 40+ hours a week and still be be forced to live like you're out of work. The price of goods actually has a lot more to do with the price of the Canadian dollar on the international market-- if the dollar is low, importing is more expensive to Canadians and prices go up, but corporations almost never reduce prices when the dollar is high. When the Canadian dollar was on par with the US $ circa 2010-2012, companies made record profits in Canada and used us to buoy their falling profits from the US-- profits that were falling because people were out of work and couldn't afford to shop at those companies.
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Originally posted by ABEL-o-matic
That's the exact reason why it's scary. More taxes on corporations, means lay offs, in the thousands, and they want to include a $15 minimum wage to that? Good luck, economy. It's already hard for big corporations to branch into Canada because of high tax, how do you expect them to react if they are taxed even more?
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That's actually been proven over decades not to be true. There are always ways for companies to do things in Canada that will have them pay less taxes-- invest in renewable resources, hire people the government gives grants to hire (young people, disabled people, etc)... it means companies have to be more creative and better diversify to stay profitable, and if they fail to do that, it's because they are not being good business people.
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Debates Schedule:
This Thursday: General Debate from Toronto, Featuring all parties
September 17: Economy debate from Calgary featuring at least Harper, Muclair, and Trudeau.
Date TBD: Debate on foreign policy from Toronto featuring at least Harper and Muclair. Trudeau has been invited.
October 2: French date organized by Quebec's TVA Network in Montreal featuring Harper, Muclair, Trudeau and Duceppe.
October 7: Consortium of broadcasters French Debate. (Harper isn't participating and Muclair won't if Harper won't.)
October 8: Consortium of broadcasters English Debate. (Same as above, Harper isn't expected to participate and Muclair won't if Harper doesn't)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cana...vote-1.3175985
As far as I'm aware all debates are being broadcast either online or television.
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First debate goes live tonight at 6:30pm ET.
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Stuck somewhere between Liberal and NDP, although I usually stand liberal.
I'll keep watching the debates
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Originally posted by Hollywood.
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ddddd;;; Well to be frank, I want to see what Mulcair has to offer to lowering student debts. But I don't see any of the three.. well 4 but May is just there to troll and serve as a comedic relief... I don't see any of them doing anything about it.
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And no one has ever held 4 terms since McDonald, am I right?
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And no one has ever held 4 terms since McDonald, am I right?
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Yupp.
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Has anyone read the article the New York Times posted about Stephen Harper:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/op...mind.html?_r=0
Its a brutal dragging of the Harper years.
The funny part is the conservatives have actually gained in the polls since this was published.
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NDP on track for majority government Conservatives tumble to third place TORONTO August 25th, 2015 - In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll™ among 1440 Canadian voters, fully 4-in-10 will now vote NDP in the coming election (40%), ten points ahead of the second place Liberals, with 3-in-10 votes (30%). The incumbent Conservative Party is favoured by fewer than a quarter (23%). This stands in stark contrast to last week, when the NDP had a five point lead over the second place Conservatives and Liberals (34% to 29% and 28%, respectively). It is clear the sharp improvement in the NDP’s fortunes has come out of the Conservative vote, as well as the Green and Bloc Quebecois vote (3% each now, 4% each last week).
Read more at: http://poll.forumresearch.com/post/1...o-third-place/
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