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I am a Millionaire. Tax Me More, Please. (macleans.ca)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Tax the rich, relentlessly push bikes and public transport, regulate big business, this is the only way we survive.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Millionaires with a few million dollars aren't the problem

The biggest problems are the handful of billionaires and the billionaires that are not Canadian but have a strangle hold on companies or corporations that affect Canada.

If the government could just tax the ever loving shit out of billionaires, they'd remove the single root cause of a lot of problems in the country and actually allow some sort of competition in all industries. This would allow the economy to spread the wealth to more Canadians than to a bunch of non-aligned billionaires who could care less what country they are attached to because their wealth is so great, they are basically their own country at this point.

Millionaires aren't the problem .... Billionaires are

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They're part of the problem, but you can become a millionaire ethically, not a billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Being a millionaire these days is pretty normal. Need a lot more than that to retire if you don’t have a pension plan.

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 1 week ago (7 children)

How about instead of begging to be taxed you invest that money into a project needed to help Canadians who aren't well off.

Build housing with your money.

Build infrastructure with your money.

Help others fund Green alternatives with your money.

Donate to the thousands of charities who will do this all for you if you are lazy.

But stop bitching like you do not have the option to spend that money well on your own for the benefit of others. Especially when the rhetoric is "Government bad" at all times making it really hard to push for a tax increase on anyone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

http://archive.today/2025.06.30-022902/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/29/mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-school-closure/

The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes. 400 kids lost their school. Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.

Using money for charity is great, but having the government tax and manage it all instead is much, much better. Because it won't suddenly disappear. Unless your ruler's name is Donal Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Uh... Given their values it is very likely they do donate to charities, but how far do you think a million can go in the modern day? You say "build housing," but a million dollars are like, a house? Two houses? Until you reach the hundreds of millions level of obscene wealth, you need numbers before you can get anything done, so pushing for higher taxation is one of the most productive things this person can do with their time and money.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

When McClean is running a piece to tax the rich you know that shit is near the fan

[+] [email protected] -12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But Mark Clowney doesn’t want to.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For a "Progressive", you sure do like to use Conservative talking points and nicknames a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can criticize one big group without being part of the other big group.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Carney is running to the Conservatives for support more than he is the NDP. There's a lot to criticize him for from the left. Whereas the right has got three tax cuts and a promise to hugely increase the military budget in just a few months of this government.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We need to increase the military budget. That isn't Conservative, it is a reality.

What tax cuts are you referring to? I have only heard of the tax cut for middle class, and that was supported by the NDP from what I know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We don't need to increase the military budget to 5% of GDP, a greater share than the US currently spends on it's military by 1.6%. That's insane and will certainly mean cuts to services like health care.

Taxes cut under this government:

Consumer carbon tax
Capital gains tax increase
Digital Services Tax

Carney cuts taxes like he won as leader of the CPC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you know how much of that military spending will go to fixing problems that are decades old?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That doesn't justify spending more as a percentage of our GDP on the military than the USA who spends more than the next 10 or something states combined. I'm not giving up nationalized health care because Donald fucking Trump wants to shake down NATO and make Canada spend 30% of it's national budget on American arms.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cool.

With that rant you have shown tou don't understand how badly our military has been neglected.

Your mindset only works if the US is actually friendly.

And, we have been shopping elsewhere for new military equipment.

Keep up.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

30% of the budget. Certainly the end of nationalized health care. That's worth it to you?

And if you think the US won't engage in the sorts of tactics it currently is engaging in to demand we spend more of our military budget on them then you are mistaken.

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