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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
lol
(I know it's unpopular to defend rich people, and I'll get crucified for it, but here goes anyway)
The average Canadian receives what? about $100,000 worth of public services per year? (considering roads, schools, hospitals, policemen, etc, etc)
The average Canadian pays about $10,000 - $20,000 into the system per year (based on tax rates for the average income). Let's use generous Alberta numbers and say that the average household earns $100,000 per year. In that case, they are contributing maybe $30,000 - $40,000 per year.
Someone like Edwards is paying anywhere from a few hundred thousand to (more likely) at least 7 digits per year in taxes. He pays way more than he receives, so that people like you can receive way more than you contribute.
That's the nature of the system.
Say what you want about him leaving, but suggesting that he is spunging off the system worse than someone on EI?
Can you possibly be that blind and obtuse?
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This is a fundamental flaw with the system we have in place.
When you have people making huge sums of money you run into the issue of: What happens to it?
Generally speaking, your use of the public industries doesnt change a whole lot depending on your income whereas conversely, your contribution to them does.
Its an inequality, not the one that gets brought up constantly but an inequality all the same. But the popular reaction to that is: you're rich, suck it up, no one cares.
Which is also understandable to a degree, but we have to remember that these are people too and while they have the luxury of 'sucking it up' they may not want to and they dont necessarily 'have' to. And making them 'have' to is actually making them another class of citizen which is something that we as a society have generally wanted to avoid. The difference is you arent making them a higher class, you would be making them a lower class, which is also bad.
The thing is: Reagonomics was bullplop.
If you're rich and not interested in the global Playboy jet-setting lifestyle then you have 1 car, 1 mansion, 1 yacht, 1 faberge egg etc.
You arent consuming sufficiently relative to the rate that you're earning.
Actually, they are doing the WORST thing any responsible citizen of this society can do. They're saving.
And when saving is bad then something is broken.