Federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has unveiled his party’s first major economic platform plank ahead of the upcoming election.
Trudeau says he plans to tax the wealthiest 1% in the country and cut taxes for the middle class. So we hit the streets to see what is your definition of the middle class in Canada.
Since there is no hard core way of defining middle class – it has to do more with life-style and attitude than income – Fluffy’s handlers picked the best topic for him to address. How can you be wrong when you’re discussing personal preferences and taste.
If you remember NDP leader Alexa McDonough (1995-2003 and one in the long line of champagne socialists to lead the NDP) said if you were married, had 2 kids with a stay-at-home Mom and you earned $50K you were rich but if you and your spouse both worked , had 2 kids and each earned $25 you were working class.
Seems like things haven’t changed much for the socialists.
Your theory and outlook seems to me to be better balanced and makes more sense than any economist that I know.
The conservative in me wishes to see the rich become richer and the poor become fewer.
Perhaps that’s what we see happening, just not exactly in the way originally we intended.
But don’t lose heart, without our assistance your sister-in-law might otherwise become one of Joan’s oppressed and suffering invisible lower class, and if she doesn’t, the socialist in me says this is but one more reason that the country we live in has the potential to become the greatest in the world.
I don’t begrudge these people anything, but when your busting your ass off 60hrs a week, and you don’t feel like your living any better than people on assistance, you don’t feel like your in the middle class do you. I have a great life, and I’m not complaining at all, I’m just wondering if this isn’t part of what’s making people feel like the middle class is disappearing, when it’s really the lower class moving up. Just a thought !
Has he said when he would reduce taxes on the middle class? Maybe in 2019 by say 0.02 percent?
Yawn. I might have some respect for Trudeau if he promised to inceprease taxes for the top 2-5 percent of Canadian incomes and give that money directly to Canada’s real oppressed and suffering, the growing invisible lower class. The starving. The homeless. The freezing.