Where do taxes knock the wind out of your sails?

[The Avon Lady]

Apparently in Canada (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK-esBqKyLM). :yep:

[ReallyDedPoet]

Rick Mercer report, good show, he takes no prisoners in his comedy here in Canada. Left, Right or Center, and all points in between are all fair game:yep:

RDP

[RedMenace]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTZ_tgMUdo

Another great Rick Mercer bit, one of my favorites.:lol:

[CCIP]

Soooooo true :dead:

[The Avon Lady]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTZ_tgMUdo

Another great Rick Mercer bit, one of my favorites.:lol:
Congratulations Canada on your new summer season street defrosting system! :up:

[RedMenace]

"Now just wait a minute, doesn't Canada have PROVINCES?"

[ReallyDedPoet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTZ_tgMUdo

Another great Rick Mercer bit, one of my favorites.:lol: Congratulations Canada on your new summer season street defrosting system! :up:
All the Comedy Greats come from Canada:yep: We are best at making fun of ourselves, we have a bit of complex for that. A camera, and some editing can do some crazy stuff.

RDP

Thanks by the way:hmm:

[Yahoshua]

Poor canadians.......they get stuck with some of the dumbest schemes to waste their tax dollars (and of course, the same happens here in the U.S.).

I blame the British, it must be in the genes somewhere.......:yep:

[Kapitan]

My girl friend emma she earns £1,499 a month before tax after tax she is left with just £1,050 take your bills and stuff off that and your left with about £36 to yourself

Rent being £600 per month
water and other stuff not known yet

[Sailor Steve]

All the Comedy Greats come from Canada:yep: We are best at making fun of ourselves, we have a bit of complex for that.
Well I disagree on the first part, but it's all opinion anyway. As for making fun of yourselves, it's a trait you inherited from your British forebears, as did your neighbors to the south.

Anyone who can't make fun of himself has no true sense of humor.

[andy_311]

You guys are lucky us in the UK got tax's for everything I even heard that the unemployed are taxable recently but I can't prove it.

[Wxman]

Here in the "last best place to live" certain citizens must declare income tax refunds as "income".

Do NOT get me started...

Some of you believe that paying taxes is not just a privledge, but a duty and send the income tax-refund check right back to the government.

:arrgh!:

[Rilder]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTZ_tgMUdo

Another great Rick Mercer bit, one of my favorites.:lol:

I like the bush part were bush says "Canada is our most important neigbor to the north" :rotfl:


"Congratulations Canada on reaching a popultion of one million"

Anyways

Hello Canada our Eskimoe Neigbors to the South!

[P_Funk]

I don't mind paying taxes on two conditions. 1. That they actually invest the tax dollars in a more than adequate social welfare system, including universal health care, good schooling, subsidized college tuition (not very good right now), and rent controls and other things that tip the balance in favour of the less fortunate (not since the 80s alas). And 2. That they tax the rich proportionally, which they don't and likely wont ever.

The rich get away with murder in taxation. Plus if they taxed the rich for even half of what they tax the average man then they wouldn't even need my paultry income tax.

[NefariousKoel]

I don't mind paying taxes on two conditions. 1. That they actually invest the tax dollars in a more than adequate social welfare system, including universal health care, good schooling, subsidized college tuition (not very good right now), and rent controls and other things that tip the balance in favour of the less fortunate (not since the 80s alas). And 2. That they tax the rich proportionally, which they don't and likely wont ever.

The rich get away with murder in taxation. Plus if they taxed the rich for even half of what they tax the average man then they wouldn't even need my paultry income tax.

Yeah, Communism is an ideal less corrupt than ever, huh? :rotfl:

[P_Funk]

Yeah, Communism is an ideal less corrupt than ever, huh? :rotfl: Oi.:roll:

What is it with people and Communism? You think that its the only left wing theory?

Besides I think that Adam Smith agrees with me on taxation. He's generally more respected by the right than Karl Marx, being the father of the free market and all.

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

[Yahoshua]

If I start a business from the ground up I have to jump through god-knows how many hoops, wade through red tape, and do all the work to even get a business started, let alone make it successful.

The government has no hand at all in starting that business so why should I pay more taxes because I became successful? May as well not work and live off welfare if that became the case.

[RedMenace]

Because if you want to have good school systems, good cities, good health-care, and overall, better everything, you're going to have to pay for it. And if have a lot of money, you have a lot of money to give, too.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Anyone who can't make fun of himself has no true sense of humor.
Thumbs up to that:up:

[RedMenace]

Bah, let's not side-track this thread, it's for funny videos and laughing at them, and complaining about taxes. Lets not get political.

[Kapitan]

Dont get me started on the 40% inheritance tax!

[waste gate]

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

[U-533]

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

Yep!

Next stop 'Septic Tank'...

[P_Funk]

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. Well now we know why you're always grumpy.

BTW. How do you ever say anything about taxes without it being political.:doh:

[waste gate]

Wihtout being too 'grumpy', what does this mean?

BTW. How do you every say anything about taxes without it being political.:doh:

Perhaps a rephrasing is in order.

[P_Funk]

Perhaps a rephrasing is in order.
Why? It wasn't in response to you. It was a response to someone on the last page saying that we should just talk about taxes and not let it become political. In my experience there is nothing that gets EVERYONE talking about politics more than taxes.

That wasn't very grumpy either. I think we're making progress. We aren't being snide at each other immediately.:o

[waste gate]

Perhaps a rephrasing is in order.
Why? It wasn't in response to you. It was a response to someone on the last page saying that we should just talk about taxes and not let it become political. In my experience there is nothing that gets EVERYONE talking about politics more than taxes.

That wasn't very grumpy either. I think we're making progress. We aren't being snide at each other immediately.:o

I just didn't understand the comment. Thanks for clearing it up. The word 'every' confused me.

[P_Funk]

The word 'every' confused me.
Ah yes. That was meant to be 'ever'. My typage can really suck sometimes.:p