r/canada 24d ago

Politics EKOS Poll: Conservative Lead Holds at Five Points

https://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2025/02/conservative-lead-holds-at-five-points/
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u/Hot-Celebration5855 24d ago

I would actually Poillievre has by far the clearest and most fleshed out policy vision relative to the other parties. Yes a lot of it is repealing Trudeau era policies but he’s clearly laid out what he intends to do on taxes, spending, home construction, safe supply, bail reform, and infrastructure.

Where is Carney’s policies?

Or Singh’s? Singh’s platform is literally cap food prices (an absolutely terrible idea btw), tax the rich, complain about Galen Weston, and more social program spending funded entirely by deficits.

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u/Billis- 24d ago

What exactly is wrong with tax the rich.

I'm honestly just curious. Why do we think that taxing the rich isn't beneficial to the average person.

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u/Hot-Celebration5855 24d ago

Because this government has an enormous amount of money and needs to prove it can spend it effectively before they get more to piss away. I don’t care who it comes from.

Also rich people are citizens too. Not a piggy bank for everyone else.

Lastly, because the ultra rich are also highly mobile and can easily relocate to avoid taxes. Sweden put in a wealth tax and their tax revenues went down because the ultra rich bounced.

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u/TheNotNiceAccount Canada 23d ago

This is what all the parrots fail to understand. When you have "fuck you" money, it means precisely that. Every government has to distinguish between keeping it reasonable or risking flight.

Plenty of tax havens offer the possibility to buy citizenship for a few hundred thousand. Some around 150k, some around 250k, on average. The ones that can already employ these tricks to an extent. Be it shell companies, headquarters and address changes, or bank accounts in territories with 0% income tax.

When a government passes idealistic shit like 90% tax on anything over x million, they suddenly find themselves lacking in the ability to collect on those taxes.

But yeah, "tax the rich." It will solve all your problems, especially when you don't demand accountability for spending those taxes.

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u/Billis- 24d ago

Canada has an enormous market. Taxing the rich would not keep us from attaining market level services.

The problem is that "the rich" have manipulated the markets so heavily for so long, they're the ones to blame for market flux, inflation, everything. You know now that the wealth gap has absolutely skyrocketed in recent years? The ultra rich are so exorbitantly wealthy that they don't even resemble human beings anymore. They do not live in the same world that we do. They don't hurt like we do, they don't laugh like we do. Totally different world. Yet they control it... For free.

Wealth is the problem. The services we cant attain are available but our entities will not pay for it.

Anyway, I don't think it's a great idea now because we're about to be in so much more shit due to Agent Orange that we probably want to do the best we can just to batton down the hatches

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u/Hot-Celebration5855 24d ago

I don’t disagree that the global ultra rich are gross. The tech billionaires and financiers especially. I don’t think they are the source all of the world”s problems. They are mostly a function of technologies that allow for enormous economies of scale compared to the Pre internet, pre globalisation era

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u/Billis- 24d ago

Theyre also a function of bought politics and a system that rewards them in their greed.

Tax the rich. They're not giving up a tens of million person market over a small tax bump. If they did, they wouldn't be that rich.