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Amazingly, wishing really, really hard while flogging business and Provinces, and throwing tax payers' bucks around, won't make it so (in time for the election)
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Amazingly, wishing really, really hard while flogging business and Provinces, and throwing tax payers' bucks around, won't make it so (in time for the election)
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Do not miss the, "I pay your salary" types.
Even while breaking your back trying to help them.
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Are they wrong?Do not miss the, "I pay your salary" types.
Even while breaking your back trying to help them.
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Well technically so do service members too. So it’s not like civilians get to lord that over folks.
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Amazingly, wishing really, really hard while flogging business and Provinces, and throwing tax payers' bucks around, won't make it so (in time for the election)
Report expects Canadian home prices to hit record highs in 2026
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Got me thinking again.....
Retraining seems to be a preferred course of action for this government.
Which do you think is easier? Training roughnecks to build windmills? Or training wombish persons with social justice degrees how to lay shingles?
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Of course you are correct.
I personally wouldn't say "I pay your salary" to someone doing their best to help me.
But, like you say, the customer is always correct.
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Nearly everyone in Canada pays each others salary- if you use a business you pay a salary. It’s a daft comment. And most of the people I deal with more than likely get their taxes returned to them with all the contributions they make to society soooooOf course you are correct.
I personally wouldn't say "I pay your salary" to someone doing their best to help me.
But, like you say, the customer is always correct.
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100%. And that’s in the forefront of my decision making every day.
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Brad Sallows
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It doesn't matter who pays salaries. What matters is if salaries keep increasing without commensurate increases in productivity.
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Of course, you never talked back to a customer.
But, used to think to myself, instead of griping at us about being "over-paid and under-worked".
As if the Call Volume was not already high enough to satisfy them.
"I don't have it, so you shouldn't either!"
Why not look at it this way, instead, "If they have it – why don't I?"
Like crabs in a bucket, on a race to the bottom.
You think so?
True - but inflation is increasing at a roaring pace, with no increase at all in productivity.
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Why shouldn't we?
It inexplicably rose by 50% with nothing to show for it.
Time to cut the fat.
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Bluntly and on the face of it, I worked half the year to pay taxes until Tax Freedom Day. Let's pick a number for simplicity, $10,000. The other half of the year I got to keep those wages paid to me by the government, $10,000. Simply, I payed my own wages. I gave them $10,000, they gave me back $10,000 in wages.
I know it's a little more complicated than that, but the basic premise holds.
Tax Freedom Day in 23 was June 15. 15 days short of 1/2 a year.
I know it's a little more complicated than that, but the basic premise holds.
Tax Freedom Day in 23 was June 15. 15 days short of 1/2 a year.
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Of course, I did. It was one of the handful of times I came close to being fired.
Not really the problem at all. Roughly: we're able to afford more programs or more regulations - both of which require increases to public service employee counts - or more compensation for those already employed because of increasing productivity, which ultimately drives increasing revenue (primarily taxes). If productivity gains falter, or public service employee counts increase needlessly, or public service employees are granted compensation gains beyond what is necessary to counter inflation and to maintain parity with comparable private occupations, then the music will stop. Most public service jobs are not themselves amenable to productivity improvements.
If they all did, pretty much everyone would be on equal footing as consumers. Except for a few very wealthy people, everyone would be earning approximately the median income. The amount of goods/services wouldn't change. So everyone above median income would find their lifestyle slipping back to roughly what the median income supports. Median income in Canada is a little under $70K. Readers can judge for themselves how much of a slip (or gain) that would be. I suspect a few would cough up their skulls if that came to pass.
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Is this true? I thought that not too long ago it was 40 thousand?
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I think that’s the after tax, median household income of 2021. Average before tax individual income was $54,000 while the median was $41,200 according to Statistics Canada.
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right so $41200 then?
TacticalTea
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I was trying to answer the text you were replying to, my bad
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