Unsurprisingly, Canada’s Justin Trudeau has already raised taxes on my sister who’s the epitome of the middle class. And obviously on all hard-working Canadians like her. Aside from posing for endless photo ops and raising taxes, Trudeau hasn’t done anything. And I see no reason to hope he will.
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But, it has raised the daily meal allownce for Syrian refugees to $61 a day. Even when I lived in London I almost never spent that much in day yet alone every day. I currently earn about $21 a day.
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Here is the news article.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/open+vancouver+jericho+barracks+syrian+refugees+ottawa+urged/11589391/story.html
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“Unsurprisingly, Canada’s Justin Trudeau has already raised taxes on my sister who’s the epitome of the middle class.”
-When I first read this, I thought you meant Trudeau was raising taxes only on your sister, and not anyone else. :p
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Clarissa means the epitome of the middle class. I think that’s quite clear.
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http://www.thestar.com/business/personal_finance/spending_saving/2016/01/01/what-the-liberal-tax-cut-really-means-to-you.html
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Hi David, did you move to Finland? Or is there some other reason for your flag?
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If your sister earns more than 200K a year, to define her as the epitome of the middle-class is debatable. There are millions of Canadians like me who will never earn that salary because it is simply impossible in our fields of expertise and perhaps we do not care that much, however hard-working we may be. Anyways, I also dislike Trudeau, and his plan to modify taxes is smoke and mirrors. The following link gives a more subtle view on the plan:
http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-truth-about-justin-trudeaus-tax-cuts/
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I meant if she earns more than 218k a year, following the link left by David Gendron.
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It’s a joint income, of course. Two computer programmers, a doctor and a nurse, a small business owner and an IT specialist, a college professor and a systems analyst, etc. will all have this joint income. And who are they if not middle class? These people will not have an army of state-sponsored nannies working for them while they do the crucially important job of teaching a part-time yoga class, so Trudeau doesn’t care about them.
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You are right. Still, the difference is not that significant. It is all about the image, which pretty much defines the Liberals, especially under Trudeau.
I think that the very upsetting news in 2015 for people with higher income is the unfair daycare policy of the Liberals in Quebec.
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Yes, the daycare policy is ridiculous.
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Trudeau probably milks the story of having a super busy father and an overwhelmed mother to his benefit, but this is a man who in no way is going to curtail his career for the sake of his young children.
Is it the idea that he’s raising the daycare tax on people like your sister and her husband and refusing to pay it himself when he certainly makes more than 218k a year by himself?
My cousin and his wife hired a nanny, and one of my childhood acquaintances hired a nanny, and they will swear up and down they are middle class, but I cannot feel like nannies are a middle class thing in North America and Europe. Especially when said nanny employers start talking about how the nanny needs to speak English as a first language because their precious child’s vocabulary isn’t up to snuff and have some early childhood development courses under her belt (really they want someone who has been to college) and they skirt household employee laws.
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What else can people do if they have an infant except hire a nanny? What is the alternative? Of course, there are people who are forced to take a baby as young as 6 weeks old into daycare but that’s a very radical decision. And it’s not that much cheaper than a nanny. For $70 per day that my niece’s daycare cost, one can easily have a nanny instead.
Of course, we are talking only about infancy. Past the age of 2-2,5, nannies are a worse option than daycare.
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If I remember correctly, in Canada they are less about mixing the incomes of the partners together than they are in the US. Feminism in action. 🙂 The only purpose for which the whole family income is used is for calculating various additional social benefits, and those you lose by the time you family income is significantly less than 200K…
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