[Newsbot]

Title: Don't worry Canada, we will be there
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: tritium
Date: 2009-04-14 10:33:35
Canadian

[Public_Domain]

[Proculation]

And we are gonna pay for your pension check with our crappy over-taxed job because of you !

[RUEZ]

Proculation Proculation:

And we are gonna pay for your pension check with our crappy over-taxed job because of you !

You're paying less tax than those that came before you.

[Proculation]

Yes, maybe but it still over taxed.

[Brenda]

I don't see any difference with the generation before the Y-one, or the generation before that...

[RUEZ]

Proculation Proculation:

Yes, maybe but it still over taxed.

I'm trying to figure out who you're blaming for that.

$1:

And we are gonna pay for your pension check with our crappy over-taxed job because of you !

[Proculation]

the boomers.
Those who are gonna retire soon.

[RUEZ]

Proculation Proculation:

the boomers.
Those who are gonna retire soon.

Don't take it so hard. Every generation pays for the one before it. Someone will pay for your pension.

[Scape]

Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:

:) Yes, we will.

I have no doubts about that.

[Thanos]

Every generation thinks it's the cats ass. When adulthood arrives everyone usually figures out that they're no better and no worse than the ones that came previously.

CBC is notorious for this "voice of a new generation" nonsense. They keep repeating the "Canada is a young country" mantra that got popularized under Trudeau. At 142 years of age we're hardly the new kid anymore. We're actually one of the older nations now, at least as far as having an existant state that hasn't been destroyed by foreign invasion or revolutionary interregnum. As such we should be promoting ourselves as a wise and experienced voice of reason instead of "the youngster demanding to be heard". It would fit our current status better and wouldn't make it seem like we're collectively holding onto an immature 1960's era childhood where most of what we thought was cool turned out to be just a big stupid mistake.

[Robair]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Proculation Proculation:

And we are gonna pay for your pension check with our crappy over-taxed job because of you !

You're paying less tax than those that came before you.

Prove it? Or is that just your opinion?

$1:

In the 1980s, Ottawa was awash in debt, but average citizens were not — in fact, in 1982 the average savings rate in Canada hit 20 per cent, its highest point ever. Two and a half decades later, the government is in the black, but Canadians are saving next to nothing. The turnaround is not a coincidence. Governments have downloaded extra costs on us in the form of higher taxes and fees. We may never again be able to save 22 per cent of our incomes, but even a modest decrease in our taxes would help us boost our anaemic savings from their current level of around 3 per cent of earnings.