Pierre Poilievre sagt, die Kanadier zahlen zu viel Steuern. Ist es wahr?

Some don’t lay neatly enough, others pay far too much. We have to understand that due to population density issues that our tax burden will be higher because we have to provide a larger distribution of services.

Yes. When randos live in taxpayer funded mansions like Stornaway when they are between jobs, we’re paying more than we should.

Some working Canadians pay relatively a large amount of taxes, others that have a large number of assets/investments pay relatively less comparatively in terms of their ability to pay.

Considering 15 million people who owned homes 10 years ago in Canada’s biggest cities are all tax free millionaires now, I’d say there are plenty of taxes left on the table yet.

Young families with household incomes of under $100K are paying far too much. Middle-aged empty nest top earners are paying far too little.

So what services would Mr. Poilievre cut in order to lower taxes. When he says Canadians pay too much I think he means the wealthiest of us. In fact I don’t even believe he is thinking of anyone at all except himself and his failing political career. More partisan talking points made to divide us and, again, 0 solutions.

Some of us do (working class folks earning less than $150k), and some of us don’t (corporations and the extremely wealthy).

Poilievre thinks we pay too much tax. Rest assured, Conservatives although think we get too many services from government. Conservatives are all about small government. It leads to a situation where the rich and semi-rich get more money in their pockets, and where programs many Canadians need get cut to make it happen.

I got banned from another sub for this comment but here are some of my thoughts on taxes and government spending:

On West of Centre, they sometimes joke that Albertans aren’t conservative, they’re just anti tax.

People often say „run government like a business“ and then they go and forsake revenue by cutting taxes. What business would do that? Nobody likes paying taxes except we also can’t have government services without taxes.

I consider myself a centrist (I waver between NDP/Liberal but would consider the federal Conservatives if they had a good leader). I get that we want government to be lean but it’s possible to be too lean, to be dangerously thin.

After years of cutting revenue sources, I worry that governments across the county are now on a diet that is too strict to be able to sustain public services, respond to new demands (see boosted military spending), and to keep budgets balanced.

I’m young and I suspect I’ll be paying for the low-tax, Boomer diet in future. Government should make the hard choice and either cut services or raise taxes. Neither is an easy choice and as someone working in social services, I’d rather they raise taxes because there is a lot of suffering that simply isn’t profitable to address, meaning government spending has to deal with it.

It’s worth pointing out that spending to house the unhoused saves a ton of money, as does providing consistent treatment for people with substance abuse issues, or even hiring more primary care physicians to catch and treat chronic illnesses before they show up in the ER.

Spending money now to save money later doesn’t jive with modern, western business practice that seeks to maximize profit now but that’s an example of why governments can’t pretend to be businesses.

I think it’s how we spend and hold accountability to govt departments with the money they DO use. As someone close to people in healthcare, they are the first to say there is so much waste and bureaucracy with how we’re managing our health care system. More money does not mean it’ll be managed better.

If there’s 40 million people in Canada about 12 million or so homeowners majority of them are Gen X and boomers

Average equity across the nation let’s say $400,000

The liberals just made $4.8 + trillion overnight, assuming everybody sells their home and realizes a deem of disposition

Wait until the Liberals bring in home equity tax and then we can ask ourselves truly if we need more taxes

Many people’s retirement will be affected

I can see how Poilievre would feel that high income Canadians are paying too much in taxes. With a hard earned income of $325,000 , I pay a total of 47% for both federal and provincial (Alberta) taxes. I think it’s likely Poilievre could be in this tax bracket, too.

Even though I say goodbye to almost half of my wages, I am willing to support our great nation and all Canadians.

I know that if the CPC reduces taxes, there will be severe reductions in national programs that will negatively affect Canadians in the areas of the national security, environmental wellbeing and provincial equalization payments.

However, I think that this is CPC partisan rhetoric. They know that removing the government’s main source of income would be disastrous for Canada and their party especially in this global world of uncertainty.

Yes, we pay too much in taxes for what we get in return.

The medical system in Quebec is so bad we’re starting to consider paying thousands of dollars a year to get a private family doctor.

If there’s any validity to his statement it’s more along the line that wages are have been flat, relative to corporate level income, company profits & overall productivity. There’s been no „trickle down“ as promised 40 years ago with Regan/Thatcher-nomics) employee income compared to profits is the issue.
Taxes haven’t been the problem, low wage growth has been. I dont mind the 28% if it means universal Healthcare, reasonable inferstucture investment ect. I’d like just like a bigger overall piece of pie to divide up.