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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
OK. But let’s be clear that someone with a taxable income of $400k is rich - probably in the top 2-3 per cent in income in one of the richest countries in the world. And the social and economic problems of inequality that we’re experiencing in Canada today aren’t just about the oligarchs vs the 99.5 per cent. The top 10 per cent is pulling away from the 90 per cent as we become a winner-take-all society. And housing is absolutely one of the areas where this is an evident and worsening problem.
But since we don’t like to talk about class in Canada, we pretend that households earning $40k, $90k, $150k, and $400k are all middle class and all being screwed over by the Jeff Bezos and Elon Musks of the world.
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I feel like we talk about class all the time in Canada. It's part of the "we'll just tax the rich and the corporations" lexicon that comes into our election discourse every time. Of course, rich just means people who make more than me and corporations just mean bigger, facelss corporations. It's definitely not our friends and neighbors, or heaven forbid it was about me!
Honestly, Sliver is maybe the only guy I've heard push for more taxes on his corporation. I give him a lot of credit for that, even though he could be a full-blown communist!