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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Highly off how? If we take the federal budget per capita, plus the provincial budget per capita, plus the civic budget per capita, you should end up with a pretty reasonable estimate of the total services being provided (on average).
I admit to only an extremely quick and dirty in-my-head calculation, but I think it's within the ballpark for conversation purposes. If you would like to provide a more accurate number, I would love to see it.
And I don't disagree that the system supported his efforts (though that same system and the same opportunities haven't gotten the rest of us to where he is). Also, he has paid taxes for every year he lived here so I am not sure how he is hording anything.
Anyway, rubecube claimed he was a sponge and I think my post makes a valid argument against that claim.
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I would have to agree. He was hardly a 'sponge.'
He paid his taxes, and likely more than his 'fair-share.'
He contributed to Canada far more than is ever expected of anyone, regardless of what he took out of it.
This argument is an inability to see the forest through all of these pesky trees.
Canada is a nation that is predicated with the belief that we are all equals. If someone is expected and required to shoulder an additional burden due to their success then they should also be granted extra privileges.
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Mostly with our public services used per year. I'd guess closer to $20 000, but that is a wild guess.
Anyway, not really the point. I'm not sure how you can disagree that the system supported him. Was he birthed in a Canadian hospital? Go through the Canadian education system? Start a company that uses our resource extraction rules to get wealthy? Frankly I'm at a loss to how you could defend him not using our system to get where he is, but have at it.
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Again, of course the system supported him. But he also supported the system.
I can 112% guarantee you that Murray Edwards has paid more taxes, personally and corporately, as of today, than I ever will over the course of my entire life.
I could probably roll the dice and say make the same claim of this entire site and still be right. But I wont.
Do you believe that he has used and abused the system in excess to his contribution to the same said system?
He bought his ticket and he took his ride. He had advantages and various other benefits but he isnt a sponge.
He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot and a communist but he is NOT a porn star. Or a sponge, for that matter.