Life in Canuckistan: Taxes vs the necessities of life

by Natasha on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 6:44 pm · 6 comments

I’d get drunk right now if I could afford to buy the overtaxed alcohol sold by the government-controlled liquor stores. Another reason Canada is a frickin’ banana republic (download the Canadian Consumer Tax Index 2011).

Tagged as: banana republic, bureaucratic criminals, Canada, Canadian Consumer Tax Index 2011, Canuckistan, taxes

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1 lwestin April 26, 2011 at 6:49 pm

But I thought Canadians were proud to pay high taxes and have the gov’t take care of all the poor and helpless- so that they can concentrate on making sure everybody is nice enough… that is where all the taxes go, right?

2 Bill Elder April 28, 2011 at 10:19 am

Two interesting facts gleaned from Fraser Institute studies:

A) 50% (+/- 0.05%) of Canadians either work for government or rely on it for their income

B) At 47-52% of income spent on taxes, Canadians are the 2nd highest taxed people in the G20 but only 16th in terms of direct spending on social programs.

These 2 facts are very telling. First, given the self-evident reality that socialism is a Ponzi scheme pulling productivity/wealth from the private sector to pay non-value added government workers. The extraction of wealth must always be equal to consumption. At only 50% being makers and 50% being takers, Canadian collectivist socialism is at a tipping/saturation point. If government grows it will have a short fall from the private sector tax base due to numeric imbalance of production and consumption of wealth. That leaves the government to either run vast deficits to pay the public sector or extract more taxes from already tax strapped private producers – or start printing fiat money to cover the productivity shortfall as the US has and watch the dollar tank.

Secondly, being highest taxed and among the lowest to benefit from social programs shows that either our administrators are horrible wealth redistribution managers or greedy plunderers of public wealth creating an affluent elitist public sector class. In contrast, German paying the same percentage of his income in tax as a Canadian gets entitlements like full drug plans and health care, housing/COL subsidy and free college for his kids – all Canadians get is rapacious leftist politicians scolding us for not paying enough taxes – even though we pay more in tax than we do for clothing, shelter and food.

Something is diabolically out of kilter with Canadian socialism.

3 Bob Devine April 29, 2011 at 3:32 am

Awe come on now don’t blame all Canada for restrictive Ontario liquor laws. Our privately owned liquor stores in Alberta are like shopping at Safeway with weekend sales and all. LOL.

4 Natasha April 29, 2011 at 6:41 am

D’oh! Isn’t that typical of someone from Ontario (like me) thinking their province is the center of the universe. I forgot not all provinces are so backwards.

Sometimes I’m tempted to move to Alberta, except you guys have way worse winters and I despise winter weather.

5 Bob Devine April 29, 2011 at 3:10 pm: Our winters are not that bad. Ask any warmest, soon all of Alberta will be like a huge tropical beach or something. LOL. One more thing. Bill Elder makes a very good observation.