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    Kanada muss die Steuern erhöhen und die Ausgaben kürzen, um das NATO-Ziel von 5 % zu erreichen: Bericht

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    2. FngrBngr-84 on

      Sorry, I have nothing left to give. Maybe scrap some useless programs like your billion dollar gun grab?

    4. ARunOfTheMillPerson on

      Spending cuts are objectively the more logical option. I’m actually surprised its taking this long for it to click

    5. Oompa_Lipa on

      Didn’t we just hit the two percent target, after decades of missing that? Why did the target move? 

    6. NotALanguageModel on

      If only there was $42B in annual spending on grifts that we could reappropriate for the military instead…

    8. kobemustard on

      How about we apply federal tax on all Canadian citizens worldwide like the USA does. Want to keep your citizenship and benefits you need to contribute to taxes even if you live somewhere else.

    11. Remarkable_Vanilla34 on

      Cut spending then cut taxes*

      We need to prioritize, we don’t have infinite resources and money and I know people have a hard time understanding this, especially politicians, but our government can’t do every thing people want all at once.

      We can easily trim fat, like stupid gun confiscations and other expensive political stunts, but we also have to talk about things like high speed rail. I’m not against the project, but it will surely go over budget and face expensive legal challenges and delays. Maybe that isn’t the place to cut but you get what I’m saying. investments are good, some just have a higher ROI and priority than others.

      Defense is a national issue that we should all buy into, but a lot of our governments investments are „wants“ not „needs“, if we are making cuts and increasing taxes, we can’t afford to be funding things that politically motivated, at the cost of all Canadians who won’t see the benefits. I don’t want my kids paying for things we do today that we don’t need to do.

    12. Zealousideal_Vast799 on

      I know two manufacturers of military related stuff who have laid off most of their workers. What am I misunderstanding about going from 1% to 5%?
      Please tell me the 100k hired in the last few years govt wide are not being moved into the military and that represents the 4% increase.

    14. --prism on

      We should be like the US with the top bracket at ~1 million. Our top bracket is too putative too low.

    17. Low_Butterscotch_594 on

      Canada has its own billionaire class to tax that would allow us to reach that target and relieve lower and middle class stress and pressure. I’m all for that.

    18. ImDoubleB on

      Ideally, federal tax changes would be part of a broader review of Canada’s entire tax system, not just GST, but also addressing income tax, capital gains, business tax, and other areas.

    20. chromewindow on

      How about we rebrand climate spending as ecological defence? Get two birds stoned at once.

    21. Drewy99 on

      We should do what the US does and move a bunch of civilian infrastructure projects to the Army Engineers. That would really be using the military to the benefit of Canadians while hitting spending commitments 

    22. Ok-Effective6737 on

      Maybe stop sending all our money overseas and laundering it into gender rights in (obvious laundering) in places they don’t believe in it

    24. Small-Ad-7694 on

      Just shave a couple % off of this „reconciliation“ money pit scam and a couple other stupid things and you will have more than enough.

    26. Viking4949 on

      Rising oil prices for oil will lead to increased royalties and taxes for federal and provincial governments.

      The current budgets are based on $60 a barrel oil.

      And nobody knows what the average oil price will be for 2026 but it will be a lot higher than budget. Hence increased royalties and taxes.

    27. Wgh555 on

      5% spending would put Canada as the worlds 4th largest defence spender, at USD 121 billion, behind Russia at 189 billion.

      It’s a bit much if you ask me, I think 3/3.5% is more reasonable for the moment.

    29. Tesco5799 on

      Buckle up folks this has been coming down the pipe for years… Turns out you can’t just run constant defects and neglect important spending priorities on an ongoing basis.

    31. CobblePots95 on

      I want to see sustained, strong defence spending but a 5% target is entirely unnecessary. It doesn’t do the alliance any good to push its members to the fiscal breaking point. 2-3% is sufficient.

      Also, we’ve looooong hit our upper limit in terms of taxation. I would not be surprised if raising certain taxes would do such damage to productivity at this point that we’d end up with less revenue. There are probably ways to generate more tax revenue, but that comes from taxing smarter. Lower the taxes which do the most harm (income, corporate, payroll, capital gains) and rely more on taxes proven to do *less* economic harm (VAT, property tax, or -if any province wants to be really awesome- Land Value Tax).

      As for cutting spending? Well, our single largest federal spending program involves sending $18k a year to couples making up to $180k a year *in their retirement*. So…you know…probably some low-hanging fruit.

    34. CandidBoysenberry299 on

      Yeah maybe if we lower the cost of groceries and gas and housing and give me a better job so I don’t have to work 60 hours to just make it by you can tax me more

    36. Esplodie on

      Our tax brackets don’t make much sense if 100k is the equalivant of 50k in the 90s. Re-adjust the tax brackets and add a few higher up for higher income earners.

      The lower income families will get a few bucks back and the higher earners will need to fork out a bit more but there’s no reason for the highest bracket to be 258k at this point. We should add two past that.

    37. Hour_Significance817 on

      If the US or some other country wants to spend 5% of their GDP propping up an industry that contributes nothing to humanity and only serves as a way to enrich a small group of shareholders at the expense of human lives far away from the North American continent, that’s their prerogative. I don’t see why Canada needs to be anyone’s lapdog and follow suit.

    38. Weakera on

      Fuck that, unless he means the super rich, or even the rich. OFC we never heard about this during the lead up to the election.

      Going for this big defense spending when the country has so many problems, so many people struggling to get by, is criminal. Carney was just the lesser of two evils, that’s all. A big disappointment.

    39. Physical_Progress105 on

      O here me out on this one. Instead of increasing peoples taxes how about the Government LEARNS TO MANAGE THE MONEY BETTER. Or better yet learn to cut back jusf like they ask all tax payers. Seems all levels of government spend money on really stupid things and dont realize there is only one tax payer for three levels of government taxes

    40. SDL68 on

      If we don’t defend our arctic, someone is going to take it. This is the new world order.

    41. Nothing-9099 on

      Try a tourist tax instead. Or charge us visitors extra tax on hotels, attractions,

    43. Maddaguduv on

      Damn, some of us are barely making ends meet, even on a $100K salary. Sure, let me just take care of my family and hand over even more in taxes than before, kill me already. 🤦🏻‍♂️

    44. PlatypusMaximum3348 on

      Seriously is this guy nuts.

      Taxes….we pay enough. Start by increasing on the rich.

    45. izusz on

      Omg just build pipleines and give the permits for our rare earth minerals!!!!!!! We have the third largest oil reserves in the world we should be using that instead of taxing us have to death!!!! God i fkung hate the liberals they are the worst thing to happen to canada.

    46. eihpossu on

      To the ppl who say “tax the rich” I hope you mean the billionaire class bc we pay over 50% tax and get absolutely no social benefits on a $700,000+ HHI

    48. realoctopod on

      Tax the rich, tax the churches. Lots of money there. The poor shouldnt have to.be the ones having to pay for.everything.

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