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    „Das Geld ist da“: Der neue NDP-Chef Avi Lewis plant, Milliardäre und Unternehmen zu besteuern

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    1. explosive_fascinator on

      I’d love to be the first to comment on this, but I seem to have misplaced my card.

    2. fimnjc on

      You will need the transcanada highway for the breadlines this guy will create.

    3. KageyK on

      Yes, because the corporations are well known for eating any extra costs incurred, all he’d be doing is shifting the tax burden back onto the consumer, but in a backdoor kind of way.

    5. Juice1984 on

      I laugh at the answer that we will some how tax our ways out of bad policies and conditions. The government is so bad at spending at anything usefull to the evryman how does more tax revenue do anything?

    6. Sure-Assignment3892 on

      This guy’s platform will be dead before they ever regain official party status.

    7. no1SomeGuy on

      How are these political parties still around when their entire MO’s is tax the living sh!t out of everyone and everything at every opportunity? When will we have a government not addicted to taxation?

    8. Souichi_Tsuji on

      I don’t see the NDP coming back , especially on the path they’re on .

    9. Sea_Low1579 on

      I would love to comment but my equality score puts me at the back of the line.

    11. Salty_J_Canuck on

      Lewis should ask the Governor and Mayor of New York how taxing the rich has worked out so well for them…

    12. enki-42 on

      Hoo boy I’m looking forward to months of „listen, I’m left wing as they come but how dare he suggest that we ever do anything that corporations or the rich don’t like?!“

    13. Organic_Hamster_2961 on

      He’s not wrong. The rich are getting richer are at a faster and faster pace every year. There is enough wealth in this country for everyone to be living comfortably but way too much of that wealth belongs to landlords.

    14. oldbutfeisty on

      I wonder who these „corporations“ are. We don’t have enough ultra rich to make an impact, so who will pay? My phone provider? My grocery store? My bank? And will they do so at the expense of shareholders? Unlikely. So that means price increase, job cuts or both. Or maybe the workers will accept a voluntary pay cut to assist in the struggle? And where will all this windfall get spent? Free food and lodging for all! It almost makes me want to break into singing a worker’s marching song.
      There is a balance, and I support a balance, but Avi ain’t it, nor are the small group that comprise the carcass of the NDP. They used to even have ideas.

    15. T4whereareyou on

      Taxation never stops at the top, he is coming after everyones pay cheques.

    16. MusclyArmPaperboy on

      Fucking eh, this is the right move to represent the working class.

      Does everyone else in here own a corporation? Lol.

    18. YeetCompleet on

      Can’t we just focus on making more money? Economists every single year without fail highlight our true low productivity and these government figures never want to address it. We need to focus more on building and creating rather than hindering.

    19. randobis on

      Nice, but after that convention insanity has gone viral, this is too little too late. 

      If you want to salvage this, make a statement distancing  that as fringe behaviour so people can take the party seriously. You’ll lose the extreme left, but more than make up for it with working class supporters.

    20. SamJamn on

      And make small business mired in red tape.

      Having a small business sucks in canada

    21. RareYogurtcloset8104 on

      Good that’s what we need.
      The Middle-class, Working Class, taxed at source Canadian are tired of paying for their Corporate Welfare & tax give aways.
      Tax the wealthy & Corporations commensurate to their costs.
      Taxpayers are subsidizing their Training, Infrastructure, Security & Profits & frankly we can’t afford it.
      Apparently Other people’s money isn’t a problem for them.
      Corporate Welfare must end.
      Social Welfare must be paramount.

    22. 16Shells on

      the people with the most money should pay the most taxes. don’t like that? raise wages, even out the wealth distribution and have everyone pay the same (more or less) amount of taxes. until that happens, tax the shit out of the top 10%

    23. IntelligentDust6249 on

      There are only 82 billionaires in Canada, all of whom can easily leave Canada. It’s just not a big pool of revenue relative to government expenditures

    24. Onterrible_Trauma on

      That would be amazing…but easier said than done. And I don’t know if the NDP in their current state would be able to rally many people to their cause.

    25. supermau5 on

      It’s always raise the taxes that’s the solution for everything how about we start making more money? Start getting rid of the red tape on our resources lower taxes to make Canada more competitive and attractive for more businesses to comes

    26. TERRADUDE on

      thankfully he will never be close to the levers of power. How the NDP ever came to electing him their leader is beyond me

    29. ArbainHestia on

      These comments are kinda similar. What am I missing?

      > I’d love to be the first to comment on this, but I seem to have misplaced my card – explosive_fascinator

      > I would love to comment but my equality score puts me at the back of the line. – sea_low1579

    31. dogoodreapgood on

      I’ll list to the NDPs advice on finances when they aren’t 13 million dollars in debt. Until then, back of the line Avi.

    32. Ajanu11 on

      If government spending is inflationary, how is taxation not deflationary?

      Everyone saying more taxes will ruin our economy seems to be missing the fact that low taxes have not resulted in more jobs, investment or wealth equality. But let’s just keep trying the same thing…

    34. LavisAlex on

      Lot of people in this thread whod never vote NDP seem suddenly concerned about the NDP lol!

    35. Romulin-romm on

      Incoming all socialist comments. Tax the wealthy , tax the rich, tax anyone who wants to work hard and build a successful business that helps the greater good.

      Taxing people and corporations doesn’t work. Letting business thrive without bureaucracies and employing people who are willing to work is what gets people out of poverty and into a better life.

      Let’s the socialists come and downvote me.

    37. StickmansamV on

      The money is there and I am not in principle opposed provided it is smartly structured. What has been proposed so far with the set % per annum is not going to be workable. But a more careful and guarded approach should be able to provide a big boost to public finances without being overly distortionary. 

      I would prefer a bump to the GST as that is an unavoidable tax, and address the regressive nature of that thought other tax adjustments. That alone, even accounting for credits and other tax adjustments, could raise arround half of the wealth tax he proposes without being distortionary. It would also be one way to cool inflation and prices by slightly lowering demand. I would pair that with a one time wealth tax perhaps, and then only tax wealth that grows from that point on (i.e. deemed gains). 

    38. MRobi83 on

      I saw a post yesterday showing how more and more Canadians are starting their businesses outside of Canada. Implementing more taxes on these businesses will really continue that trend as Canada will be viewed as an unfavorable place to run their business due to the corporate tax structure.

      We need to reverse that trend. Have more businesses opening here (especially by Canadians) to create new jobs and expand our economy. Increasing taxes is not the way to achieve this.

      This plan, while I have not seen all of the details, seems very short sighted.

    40. EirHc on

      Based on what I’ve heard about this leader, I’m interested in the NDP again.

    42. ifuaguyugetsauced on

      The money is definitely there, but the power isn’t. We’ve seen a cycle where the Libs and Cons prioritize corporate interests over actual citizens, using low-hanging political fruit to keep the public engaged. While the NDP platform addresses the wealth gap, they face the catch-22 of our current democratic structure: you can’t govern without the support of the very billionaire class you’re trying to tax. It’s hard to win a game when the rules are set up by the people you’re playing against

    43. gianni_ on

      Stop the cultural and immigration nonsense, and focus on the services broken for Canadians and corruption being done here.

    44. Consistent-Study-287 on

      Quick question, who am I talking about with this statement:

      Your party’s leader is too extreme and won’t ever achieve any electoral victories unless they learn to moderate themselves.

      Conservatives with Poilevre or NDP with Lewis?

    45. TheOneOak on

      Should be promoting unionization so people can bargain collectively. Wages have to grow!

    46. Only-Worldliness2364 on

      There is no way that taxing millionaires and trillionaires alone is going to fix the deficit. Canada’s deficit is $1.3 TRILLION, 110% of GDP and interest is 10% of the budget. We have been living high off the hog for a long time. We have a SPENDING problem, not a revenue problem.

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