scatt
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Are you an anarchist then?
Anarchy has too many meanings (like capitalism) to attach myself to it.
Are you an anarchist then?
If they can't feed their families because they are poor they aren't paying taxes and if they are they can't feed their families because they are bad with money.
"We liked ours too"...Maybe you did. The poor, not so much. Now, Obamacare may not be the perfect solution, but it isn't the menace your partisanship tries to portray.
You're defacto reason has no merit. What bearing does numbers have on the system?
they pay 53% taxes, so basically .53 of every dollar goes to the government, imagine a family of 4 giving over have their income to the government every pay day? Holy ****!
Read my posts, I am not defending ACA, I'm saying that the previous non-system was not acceptable. I prefer a system that does not include a role for insurance companies at all.
the garbage is you think everyone should pay 50+% in federal taxes so some crackhead can have free healthcare
We don't make everyone pay 50% tax. That's simply factually inaccurate. We have a progressive tax scale, like you do.
Then they are rather wealthy and have a very crap accountant. They would have to make around 160,000$/year, live in Nova Scotia, and take no deductions. Even then hey are not paying 53%. According to a difftrent clauculator they would only have to make 120,000$/year in Quebec to achieve 50% without any deductions. Either way they would have to be wealthy.
We don't make everyone pay 50% tax. That's simply factually inaccurate. We have a progressive tax scale, like you do.
bullcrap, one lives in Montreal, he makes 10k more that I do, and I still live better and have money left to invest. Of course now we have ACA which weakens coverage and cost more so I may be in the same boat as him now
He makes a fair amount of money then unless he makes exactly 10k. Do you numbers I could use?
he makes around 150k, so he takes home less that 75k a year unless he is participating in 401k, life insurance, disability, etc, so probably way less.
So if he makes 150,000$/year he pays a marginal rate of 49.97% but the average rate is only 37.20% and his after tax income should be around 94,193$/year. If he struggling to feed his children he is rather bad with his money but for his taxes he gets some of the best education in thew world for his children (if he has any), some of the best healthcare in Canada, and QPP which actually works unlike American social security among numerous other social benefits Quebec enjoys.
I have seen his check it is over 50%, not sure what other taxes you have there but it is ridiciulous. Even using your math 49.97 does not equal 94k, I can tell this was a waste of time. The only social benefit in Montreal is gentlemen clubs if you are into that, other than that it is nothing more than 2-3 days before I am ready to come home.
Then I suggest he gets a better accountant, the 94k is based off the average tax rate of 37.2%. Those taxes are combined Quebec and federal taxes so those taxes pay for a lot, as I said some of the best education in the world, some of the best healthcare in the wrold, the CBC, and many other world class services.
best healthcare? is that why he lost his mother last year waiting on an operation for 3 months she could have had the first week here? or some other distant relative simple procedure? It is actually propaganda and a brainwashed population that thinks it is the best.
What kind of operation? Did she have comorbitities that delayed the surgery? How do you know she could have it in a week here?
at the time, I asked my doctor and he said it would have been done next week here. People in Canada are stuck when something is bad and they need it fast which is how it will be here now that we have this awful legislation. Everyone loses with this law.
So you just randomly dislike insurance that was consensually bought?
If some people want commerical insurance, that is OK with me. But I want the choice to participate in a health system that is not profit oriented, esp in the area of insurance. (I am aware that many insurance companies are nominally non-profit, but that is not the reality of the situation.] Unless it is an HMO, the insurance company's interests are contrary to their customers interests.
It's the profit.
bloated profits