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I and my wife together pay over 100,000 CAD annually through taxes as foreign workers from India, i have never felt this patriotic towards Canada. Together, Canadians can weather this situation. And we will brace the impact together, and Canada can only move in one direction when pushed against wall which is moving forward. Use oil, energy, produce and other resources wisely and you have massive win to out do USD, not far is CAD moving past USD. Go Canada!!

I think it was Margaret Thatcher during the Reagan administration the one who said, Americans are notorious about choosing stupid presidents. So, what to say about that? What I've heard from some of my friends is that they don't care if democracy is gone as long as their taxes go down. They want a lower income tax bracket. They're very single minded about issues. We'll see how we fair once you have to pay more at the pump, when the price of electronics go up, when produce and beef, pork, and chicken become unaffordable. Yes, the middle and upper middle class probably don't care, but the lower classes and the already poor are not going to be happy. Once people are hungry, then you'll see people on the street. Once the farmers start losing their farms and small businesses start losing their investments, you'll see people on the streets. Americans are not hungry enough yet. Just wait.

Hahaha trade war the same taxes we pay now you pay haha

You need to realize what Trump's real agenda is. All he really wants is money. He wants to make himself and his rich buddies richer. His plan to do that is to cut government spending radically, and impose a sales tax to fleece American consumers. Once he's got the cash flow the way he wants, he will cut corporate tax and capital gains tax so that his companies and his investments can make a lot more money and so can his rich buddies, while still being able to pay off his lackeys in the senate and congress. That's it. It is that simple. Everything else is a distraction to make the media forget his real plan.

All these “happy to support Canada” people are frustrated with the USA because the USA is no longer a personal ATM for all the countries that have been taking money from the USA for decades. The USA Tax Payers have been funding these countries - no more. I don’t mind paying more.

Should’ve protected that border! Lol. Now your people are gonna pay even more while being taxed 45% of their income. Win for America

No one wins in Tariffs, its a tit for tat. Trump fail to understand his bully boy tactics only work on the vurnable. Countries dont pay this tax consumers do. Tariffs hurt the consumers with high prices and people jobs. US is alienating themselves and there allies will turn away towards other friendlier nations.

Trudeau has f'd Canada and it's people over for the last decade, Trump is just the last nail in the whole coffin. Trudeau talking tough, he hid away for months from tax paying truckers during the tyranny over covid

Tariffs:\n\nImplemented by goverment.\n\nPaid for by the average Joe.\n\nBenefits big corporations and the tax collector.\n\nWhen both countries put up tariffs the end result is we the consumers end up paying more tax.\n\nTariff is just tax. Whoever supports it is supporting more taxes.

I live in the middle of the country, 416,000 mortgage, stay at home wife with 2 young kids.\n\nWe are further and further into massive date.\n\nThis on a salary of 145,000\n\nYes it's personal info, but we all need to be more honest about this and show each other the complete disaster that we are all heading towards.\n\nChild preschool alone for me, being a 'successful' income earner, is 890 per month.\n\nI pay over 40% into tax system and get nothing in return.\n\nBillions\nare spent on failing 'free healthcare' (which isn't free, it's the highest thing we are taxed on and it sucke), \n\nMillions are spent on welfare state, homeless, drug addicts and criminals.\n\nMassive regulations and taxes are the key drivers of our slowing economy and negative foreign investment.\n\nSocial fragmentation is exasperated by massive immigration and an even more massive housing crises.\n\nPoliticians, lawyers and real estate agencies are to blame.\n\nWe've done this to ourselves. Saying yes to easy money in return to long term pain.\n\nTurning away from oil and other natural resources (commodity based dollar)into becoming a real estate based economy is the final nail in the coffin.\n\nNew immigrants are 32-34% migrant workers and 66-68% dependants. Dependants being peippe NOT paying into tax system. Thus, being a competent and utter burden on our already thinly stretched social services.

Well, at least we ain't paying no ten dollars a gallon for milk.Look at how high your taxes are.Look what you do to your people to go

Donald probably hasn't stepped foot in a grocery store in his life. The MASSIVE inflation on commercial goods is a TAX disguised as a tariff. He knows it'll cost Americans. \n\nHowever, moment millions of people in the US begin losing jobs and begin rioting, he may pay attention.\nHow Americans aren't protesting in the streets right now is mind boggling to me.

Trump hopes to use tariffs to pay for 50% of his tax cut for the rich. What has Trump done to cut the domestic demand of fentanyl?

Meanwhile he’s going to up the carbon tax the Canadian people are paying April 1st. Nobody is going to see these tariffs besides the Canadian government treasury. Even thought he’s trying to defend us he’s a donkey and most of Canada can’t stand him

American do want this and is willing to pay more to see that bussiness es come to the USA. But most important Americans want Trudo to go. I am willing to bet she. Pierre becomes President things will change for all. You Trudo have committed treason to your own people to the truckers. Forced your citizen l to jab vaccines. Force taxes for green climat change. Don’t you see we don’t want you !

Trumps strategy is to replace income tax on the wealthy, with taxes on goods for everyone, including poor people.\n \nLower income people will pay a higher portion of the tax for the nation, while the wealthy will get a massive tax break. \n \nMost of the lower income people who support Trump won't know how tariffs work, but they will be OK with it as Trump convinces them that the tariffs are hurting someone else even worse.

Well, I was really interrupted, but my thing is with. Why does the taxpayers have to continue to keep paying out the government's debt? I don't understand these rich billionaires. Don't want to pay their taxes. And then you guys blamed the middle class and the average payers. It's time that the middle class and average payers start going after the government to change your laws or be able to take these people that don't agree with the people that they paid to take care of the United States to get to my office and put someone that does care about the people in. Our country, that's what my whole thing's about right now and Donald Trump don't care. He wants to become a dictator and keep telling you guys and his followers are doing the same. It's time to go after the Republican office that Donald Trump has put together even with Leona's and take all his contracts away from Leon musk and see where he goes now. Instead of charging Leah, unless the area says he uses about 10 times a amount of rental space to do his work. That's what I gotta say, because that's what you guys are doing to the average worker and middle class to pay your guys's b******* bill.\nAnd that's my opinion like it ornet you fucking thieves

What I don't understand the taxpayers are the ones that are flipping the government's tap. The billionaires are the ones that are causing the deficit to be so high. Why are they claiming the taxpayers to pay it out Donald Trump and his flunkies are the cause of August problem. The republicans just want more money and just because Joe Biden didn't lift up the. Spending costs Donald Trump got mad and now he's taking it out on the United States. People that pay his seat in the office right now.\n We're all working citizens in the United States. I've been flipped a bill that the government has done just to pocket their there. Money and no pay taxes. This is the billionaires that I'm talking about. Because the average workers middle class are the ones that are paying for all this government. And then you guys wanna raise everything because the year guys is doing taxpayers. Continue to keep paying and all you guys wanna do is keep taking their money. Another word's not to let them save money to buy homes. Dubai.

You mention that Americans are 30% more expensive than Canadians but you dont mention that the US is far more unequal with a Gini coefficient of 0.41 vs 0.35 in Canada. Now there is also a known issue with using GDP data to calculate productivity and that is that in sme countries the labor of GDP is much lower than in others. You then end up with Irish productivity being the second highest in the world only because most large US corporations operating in the EU register there to pay lower taxes but most of that revenue is just on paper for Ireland. or with Guyana whose oil and mining revenue makes it productivity equal to that of the US. Maybe that is the case, but is it? and if so why is the average wage in Guyana so much lower? so choosing only one specific stat can make any point of view seem true. you have to look at the bigger picture.\nnow the issue is Canada has been getting more unequal but it is still much better than the US. so what it means is that the higher worker productivity in the US benefits corporations and billionaires far more than it benefits the average American. now if we compare cost of living say between NYC and Toronto:\nCost of Living in Toronto is 37.5% lower than in New York, NY (without rent) \nCost of Living Including Rent in Toronto is 47.1% lower than in New York, NY \nRent Prices in Toronto are 59.2% lower than in New York, NY \nRestaurant Prices in Toronto are 34.5% lower than in New York, NY \nGroceries Prices in Toronto are 33.0% lower than in New York, NY \nLocal Purchasing Power in Toronto is 7.2% higher than in New York, NY \nand this is similar when comparing almost all large Canadian cities with a comparable US one. And whilst housing and NIMBYIsm is real issue you have very similar issues in the US which also has almost no mix zoning. But throw in safety nets and go ask Canadians if they want to change for the US system. I doubt most will. Sure some want things to change but some assuming everyone wants an ultra capitalistic society. most are ok with less growth ut better balanced growth (the exact opposite of the boom and bust US model)

The property taxes or any taxes in Canada are basically flat, Person with 1 home or a tiny home pays property tax, people with mansions and multiple homes also pay a similar rate, and corporations who own hundreds of properties pay almost no tax. Rental income should be a side gig, not your main income. Income tax starts at minimum wage, which is insane, and grows until the upper middle class but after that, people can just get paid in stocks which are not taxed. Canada needs Asset taxes, you can't just sit on a pile of wealth and retire young, you gotta work for your money, otherwise your country will have nothing.

Well, she is right. They need to do it the right way. Pay taxes like everyone else! Stop taking advantage of things thinking they entitled.

If my country doesn't get housing costs under control they're in serious trouble. The average house in the town I live in is something like 900K and there's basically no local economy. With costs so high I can't afford to start a family. If we keep gaining old folks needing healthcare while keeping housing expenses high and wages low taxes will have to keep going up.\n\nI am not going to continue to pay huge portions of my income for the benefit of the elderly while I can't afford a decent lifestyle. I don't want to but it seems moving to the US or elsewhere is the only option if things continue this way. At list point the local governments are so invested in denying housing permits and abusing zoning laws to prevent housing being built that the only way to fix it would be to strip the provinces and cities of the right to decide their own zoning bylaws. \n\nI want to see a change in the constitution that makes zoning bylaws illegal. There are too many people thinking of their self interest and not of the Nations interest. We deserve to lose the right to decide what can be built in our neighborhoods. We have been abusing this right for too long

One big problem Canada has, is USA. Canada is better to be in if you aren't established, poor people do not suffer as badly as those in the usa who have no money. But if you are established, living in USA is better, you pay less taxes, and you make more money on average, and you have more access to a larger market, so what people do is use Canada to become established, then leave. And because USA is just a hop skip n jump, its easier than if you were to move over seas.

Not only is Canada bringing in mass amount of unskilled immigrants, but they are are subsidizing their wages, driving down wages even further as Canadians entering the work force can't compete for jobs when companies can pay well below minimum wage for foreign workers who will be topped up by the government. Our own taxes are being used to make our own citizens more poor.

Brain drain is definitely a big issue. I heard from someone that if you're a US citizen you are required to pay US taxes even if you don't live there and honestly I kind of wish Canada would do the same. If this country raised you and educated you and gave you all the opportunities you've had in your life thus far, you shouldn't get to just up and leave without paying anything back.

Secure our borders we are tried of paying high taxes for everyone coming in illegal asylum seekers

She pay taxes?

Anyway they are not good for the Canadian economy. They live 20 people in a 4 1/2 apartment. They are bargaining every time dealing with them and they don’t want pay Taxes.

Make them pay taxes ?

It took me and my girlfriend months to find an affordable apt. In 84! These ILEGAL immigrants walk in and our taxes PAY THEIR RENT!? F u c k that!

Had someone the other day tell me “we need not block anyone there is tons of land here. “\nPeople have not ever taken basic economics nor do they understand how a country runs. What’s the point of having a country? If there is no borders it’s not going to operate in the long run. If there’s thousands upon thousands upon millions of people not paying taxes eventually the country will go bankrupt. I don’t care if tons of people come here but why are all these people leaving everything to chance by not having the correct paperwork??

When I Was Homeless-Nobody Gave A Crap-And My Mom And I Still Made It..!!\nI Don't Care For Them..!!\nI'm Disabled And Still Work And Pay Taxes..!!\n?♥️??

Do not feel sorry for Canada. I am Canadian. Canadians voted for the Liberal Socialist Government they have 3 times. The youth wanted marijuana legalized. The union governments wanted to tax the corporation to be the highest of the G-7, tax their citizens, attack investors, to fund their rediculous social programs, paid sick days, stat holidays, benefits, pension plans etc .....and now no one in their right mind would open a business or invest in Canada..... No, Canadians are getting what they voted for and deserve....Good Luck to them, I have found a new and friendly country to do business and invest in. Oh, and it has beautiful weather all year round. You could not pay me enough to invest in Canada again:)

India has most imagrants settling in Canada, Africans settled in Jamaica soon Canada will look more like India mutch like Jamaica looks like Africa. As long as imagrants are law biding that's growth. Shouldn't be bias and welcome imagrants. USA has Soo mutch land to offer only kamala Harris plan to open boarders more to India Pakistan failed. Trump like controlled boarders were Canada Trudeau welcomes imagrants from Pakistan, India. Trudeau's lust and lack of brains towards sinful same sex. God says in holly Bible in Leviticus same sex is sinful. Foreign countries imagrants flee to Canada and USA to practice sinful same sex. With crime increasing with imagrants stolen cars as shipped over seas, Canada has to deport all criminals and there whole family only then would imagrants be mindful knowing they'll get there whole family deported at this point its a joke biggest gold hesist at Toronto airport prime example besides imagrants on news always for crimes like crime theft, sexual crimes, fraud. Welcome to Canada were leaders are too bussy making corrupt deals for new highways, (Ford) Trudeau's biggest latest scam high speed rail from Toronto just to Quebec. Forcing every province pay for French scam of year stealing tax payers dollars from all province. Trudeau saying using Canadain steel only was to blindly fool Ontario to think Trudeau's saving jobs when fact is hese stealing tax payers money all across Canada for a French project that only Quebec wants so French can see CN TOWER,NIAGRA FALLS.

As a Canadian I don't blame DT. It's gone way too far. It's not a race thing it's a matter of the effect it has on North America born citizens. Our taxes pay for this over flow and it's given to illegals that get more than the tax payer. I am all about helping but let's take care of the home land first. Further more I find the lack of respect that is so commonly encountered is becoming a major problem for all sides. I can't fathom the entitlement.

The people leaving Canada are older, and they have money. The ones coming are poor and compete with other poor immigrants that can't afford to leave. When I came to Canada with my parents they had to be skilled and bring with them the minimum of $10.000.00. Today the door is open everyone comes to visit finds a job that hire illegal migrants, and never leave. The company saves and no one pays taxes. The government is corrupt. Immigration, Unions even most police officers are corrupt to the core with DEI hiring Canada is in a crisis to say the least.

I don't get why people try to defend these criminals. Paying tax for your whole life, you are entitled for the money they gave other people. \nIt's foreign aid? no, it's untraceable money.

You can thank your wonderful Justin for this. Ontario keeps voting Liberal, and the immigrants vote Liberal. But it’s also happening in the major cities in Conservative provinces like Alberta. Lots of immigrants been landing on the cities and they’re voting in liberal city councils - who love spending money and increasing property taxes to pay for ridiculous initiatives “to attract more immigrants” !!!!!!

Well done! But as far as I'm concerned, the deportations aren't happening fast enough. As a tax paying New Yorker, I want these 'parasitos' and their multitudinous

I live in new york, I pay taxes up the ass, I make a living, taxes kill my income, this is fucking unreal! I pay a fortune for all me and my families needs! But if your a foreigner come on it, my taxes go up, wtf don't voters understand?!

Adios! Maybe I can get a job now and some decent housing since I have been paying taxes for years and years.. Or maybe the govt can pay FOR my hotel fees, my food and everything else we give out.. Sorry, but it's time for survival now, it's me or you....and it has to be me in my world. Canada stand strong. Immigrants are welcome here but do it legally and contribute to our nation, not deplete it! We're drowning. Canada wake up!!!

Illegals in NY hotels and Americans can’t pay for rent ,property taxes ,association,put food on the table,pay for medicare ,God help us ?

Meanwhile I’m struggling to pay my bills and keep groceries on the table for my disabled son and I. I can’t even get a snap card… and I’ve paid taxes for over 25 years and was born here. Our government really hates the citizens of this country. Hopefully Trump can start helping the working poor people. Peace

If they punish the owners who use to steal people work should punished first and cancel their licence and make them to pay the tax difference ...

....suckers paying taxes.... ...and you know it..

There should be no Illegal entry to America. The states that aid them need to answer for it & get NO money from our tax payers $. Governors that are fighting for Illegals not the American citizens should have their pay go to pay back tax payers. They'd turn around real fast when it affected their own $.

There are temporary immigrants who are going to sue if they are sent home. They don't realize all gov funding to illegals is stopping, tax payers are not paying for the attornies-

You can aquire TIN number without SSN and work and pay taxes in any sanctuary city ..OH and you can get driving license also

Cash, what about a sanctuary country for corporations that will pay no taxes? That's the USA and it's going to cost Trillions, People's Lives, and the end of the country as we know it!

This is all about funneling money to rich people. They pay per unit they pay per person they provide crap service for more money then it would cost if people just bought food and stuff like that for them self. They want to keep it going because rich people are making big money they create a problem then Turn around and go we can fix it. Making money kicking people out we need all these gadgets planes staff ect. So basically it's about taking tax dollars and funneling it to people who donate to the politicians