So, I’ve done the math. Let’s take someone with twice the avg canadian salary.
They’re making $130k/year.
They pay about 29% tax. $38116/year.
Let’s say they own property in a HCOL area. Maybe $3k/year property tax.
That leaves them with $88k left.
Assuming worst case scenario - they don’t pay mortgage or rent or anything and spend every penny. So they’re paying about $13332 in sales tax.
That leaves 75550 that they’ve spent before tax. Which is about 42% of their income going to tax paid, in total.
Again. That’s worst case scenario. In reality, they’re paying a mortgage and/or contributing to an RRSP or even paying rent. All of which would substantially reduce that percentage.

The idea that Canadians (on average) are paying 50% tax is just right wing propaganda bullshit designed to scare you in to cutting social programs in hope of getting a little trickle down action. Don’t fall for it.

For me, I’m paying about 35% tax, in total. Including sales tax, income tax, and property tax. And I think I’m far closer to the “normal” percentage most middle class Canadians pay.

Show your work, please. I’m pretty sure it’s closer to 25-30%.

Edit: confirmed. I did the math. It’s closer to 35% for most people. Including income tax, sales tax, and property tax.

Hard agree. But it’s a function of FPTP. If we had a better voting system (like Trudeau promised!) then a lot more people could vote their conscience instead of doing strategic voting. But until then, voting strategically is often the best move.

Online spaces are limitless, basically. If you don’t like living under someone else’s rules it’s dead easy to spin up your own space with your own rules. The dictatorship-ness of these virtual spaces keeps then semi-civil and on-topic. Ideally, at least. We are talking spherical cows here, obvs.

Real life spaces, not so easy to spin up your own country. So we have to use a political system that (on paper, at least) caters to the majority without stepping on the minorities too much.

I agree. NPD was the right choice. It’s just not the choice enough Canadians were going to make. Which sucks. Hard.

Ya. I don’t disagree. The system has been broken by foreign owned media, social media, and late stage capitalism.

Online? Dictatorship. Let the guidelines be clear and the conversations civil and on topic. If my speech isn’t wanted in a particular community I can find another, or make another where I’m the dictator.

IRL? Democracy. It sucks, but it’s better than everything else. I do, however, wish there were better laws forcing media to be locally owned, and bound to be truthful. And some way to keep late stage capitalism’s hand off the scales.

To be fair, we had to vote for the banker cuz the only realistic alternative was a nazi-handshaking maple maga moron. We picked the best of the shitty options.

I would have LOVED to see Jagmeet in the big chair, but too much of Canada is too racist to vote for someone in a turban, and the rest were going to vote for PP.

So ya. Cheney is a fucking banker. But he’s better in every way than PP.

I’ve tried botw 4 times now. It’s the whole reason I bought a switch. It bores the living fuck out of me every time I play.

I know a lot of people love it, and you might too. But I’ve never been able to play more than 3-4 hours in without being bored off my ass and going to play something else instead.

Really hope we go with the Gripens instead.

Ya, very hard to boycott the Orange turd with the currently available cars.

If you buy VERY SPECIFIC Honda or Toyota models you can get one that’s made in Japan. Or made in Canada with /mostly/ Canadian parts. But they’re all north of $60k.

Gonna be really close to zero.

I’m running a pair of nvidia cards. An 3080ti drives 4, and a 4060 drives the other two.

PC is a 12700 with 64gb and 4tb of ssd. Running Arch and KDE. Sometimes Hyprland when KDE is being a pig.

I’m liking him so far. We made the right choice this election.

Yup! Running Gnome on my laptop is dreamy, but on my 6-screen desktop it’s a mess - ends up feeling like a huge phone. KDE handles the desktop perfectly, tho!

Lying lier lied! News at 11!

Yes.

There’s a lot of “chocolate” in the US that doesn’t qualify as chocolate in sane countries because it has too much wax or other additives in it. US “chocolate” bar in Canada has to be called a “candy” bar.
Same way their “milk” has too much other garbage in it to qualify as “milk” in Canada.

Lindt, otoh, is /actual/ chocolate. So it’s seen as luxurious.

Fascists gonna fash.

Fascists gonna fash.