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Originally Posted by painter
You see merrylander...that handout statement...is demeaning to Americans who worked in the USA and had deductions from their pay stubs. That doesn't MAKE you a better person because you never asked for what you were eligible to get. It tells me you had enough money and didn't NEED any more.
We are paying into a system meant to be used.
I admire your posts very much...but this comparing USA to Canada gets a little long in tooth. There are differences. I have relatives born and raised in Canada. One is an author and journalist. We are both upset with politics in both our countries AND on much the same issues.
I hope you take this post as an explanation of my point. No insult intended.  |
None taken, all I was trying to point out is that regulations and citizen care does not equate to socialism nor financial ruin. I still have both family and cousins back there. As a matter of fact there are just over 41 familys there with my surname and if they are not direct family they are cousins at some remove. What upsets me is that I know we can do better but we seem bound and determined to go the wrong way.
I did not mean that I was better for not asking for help, I was simply lucky enough to have married a very astute woman who thinks dollar bills are made of rubber the way she stretches them. When I was self employed we paid taxes quarterly and some quarters Uncle Sugar got nowt 'cause there was no income to tax. The reason I objected to bbeing forced to take SS at 65 was that when added to my income it put me in a higher tax bracket so they prretty near took it all back, and what was the point of that?
Much of the debate back there about SinglePayer for example stems from a similar problem here, only they call it Provincial Rights.
The Provinces want the Feds to impose all the taxes while the Feds want the Provinces to pick up the slack.