Hawkish U.S. adviser lashes 'lame duck' Chrétien (Canada)

The Toronto Star ^ | April 3, 2003 | ???

[doc30]

The taxes for the socialized medical system is not a separate line item like the Medicare taxes here. Your income and sales taxes go toward the health care system. It's part of the general budget and not a separate system. Hospital funds compete with funds for the military and for building roads and running the schools. Also, there is no prescription drug benefit under the Canadian system.

[IvanT]

Now, you have to add on the provincial income taxes. Last I lived in Ontario, 9 years ago, that amount was fixed as a percentage of your federal taxes and was 54%. So you also pay out of every paycheck an additional $297x 54% = $160. That's a total of $560 out of $1600 taken just in taxes.

The $160.00 isn't additional, it's taken out of the $297.00 Federal Tax.

[IvanT]

You would walk home every two weeks with $1198.00 net of 1600.00

[Beck_isright]

Richard Perle bump!!!! Screw the socialist Nevillian wimps!!!

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[IvanT]

That's some pretty tough talk man.

[Beck_isright]

Facts is facts.

V

[doc30]

Things may have changed since I left Canada, but I do remember doing my taxes by hand. On the forms for provincial taxes, you enter the amount of federal taxes you pay and then calculate the amount you owe for provincial taxes. That's on the tax forms. I was on scholarship and had to make periodic installments since no taxes were withheld from my pay. I got the heck out of Canada so I could actually achieve success through hard work and not through political connections with the Liberal party.

[JohnDinLA]

The Canadian soldiers are there as part of an exchange program with some of the British regiments there. I think that the Canadians are under orders, however, not to fire unless fired upon.

This does not forgive the Canadian government's reprehensible behavior, in my opinion. The Canadian policies towards immigration are an open invitation to terrorists who want to cross the border into the U.S. and I fully support putting troops on our northern border.

[Dr. Luv]

Let's face it, any Canadian troops that may be in Iraq on an exchange program are folks cooking meals, cleaning latrines and shining the boots of the actual men who are doing the heavy lifting.

[ContentiousObjector]

Why does ANYONE care what Richard Perle has to say?

He is a buffoon

[gcruse]

I don't know if anyone else picked up on this, but when the Bush administration hosted that "Energy Summit" in Washington back in early 2001, it was Alberta premier Ralph Klein who was invited to represent Canada, not Jean Chretien.

OMG!  That's outrageous.  LOL

[gcruse]

My apologies, IvanT. Some of my compatriots are immature loudmouths, incapable of affording themselves the luxury of an unexpressed thought. It's sort of jingoism in a clown suit.

[gcruse]

Your opinion is noted and placed where it deserves to be.

[Beck_isright]

Since you're not apologizing for me, nor would I care if you did, I'll carry on with my jingoism now:)

The Al-Qanadian wing of the government up north is taking a beating and IvanT and the anti-socialists up there know it. Chretien might win re-election for his party and end up costing the econcomy for the forseeable future. That's a shame too, since it looks like the exclusionary amendment will sail through the house blocking anti and non-coalition nations from getting any US funds for the rebuilding projects in Iraq.

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