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Could the down-voters at least tell me why? Thx
by abz10 10y ago
Could the down-voters at least tell me why? Thx
- acveilleux 10y agoThat's not how Canada works. We're way to the left of the US. Furthermore, that's outside the power of the provincial government to do.
- abz10 10y agoI understand that it's not politically viable. But I don't think that disqualifies it from a suggestion worth exploring. Politics can change, especially when the money starts running out.
- CountSessine 10y agoAck! I wish our political system were so flexible as to permit this sort of exploration!
- Canada 10y agoIt is within the power of a province to credit 100% of provincial taxes back, although I wouldn't want to try that if I was governing a "have not" province, especially if part of the deal was cutting essential services subsidized by transfer payments.
- AdrianB1 10y agoThe explanation is simple: Canada is socialist. As Margaret Thatcher said, "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.". The problem with Canadians is that they don't like to run out of money to support their socialism, so even suggesting to consider giving up to taxes is worse than blasphemy, it's counter-revolution.
- timecube 10y agoCanada is in no way a socialist country. Perhaps the term you're looking for is "social democracy".
- AdrianB1 10y agoTomato, tomato. Living in a former communist country that was calling itself "socialist" you can call Canada any way you want, it is socialist. I am not saying communist, that's your "democracy" difference between the two.