Why does the Federal Government tax Canadians below the poverty level?
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Low income people are taxed but then they get all the income tax and contributions back at tax time.\n\nLow income also get GST rebates, and if kids they get a higher child tax credit every month.
391909
The reason for poverty in America is the politics's of greed, or Repuglicans in general. I have mine and I want to make more therefore I do not want to pay taxes and to hell with anybody else. Being poor is no more a choice then homosexuality. It is thrust on 10% of the population by another 10% of the population the very rich. I wonder why of for what reason that a person needs every cent of their billion dollars and there are many billionaires here. There is also a thing with corporate greed. Move the good paying jobs with health benefits overseas to a place where people work for pennies. But do you see the price come down on anything because of it. The answer is a big NO. Socialized medicine is long overdue here it is needed by all, not just an elite few. Every one in the United States should have a birthright to three things food, shelter and health care.
781556
Because the idiots who listen to them are uneducated and illiterate and think that if they are on welfare and living off our taxes they shouldn't have to pay taxes.  I got a tax cut comparable to my income just like you did and just like EVERYONE did.
93206
A flat tax requires that everyone pay the same percentage of their income as taxes.  In response to getting better deductions for higher income, those deductions are created in response to those who think that the wealthy should pay more than everyone else for taxes.  Here in California, the wealthy pay 48% in taxes as opposed to the poor who pay nothing because of their tax breaks.  The wealthy are forced to put their money in tax shelters, thus protecting them from paying taxes.  This forces all of the tax burden onto the middle clase as the poor pay nothing and receive all the benefits and the welthy pay nothing and don't have to worry about where their next mortgage payment is coming from.
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Money recieved by the Federal government through taxation.
379719
What is underfunded? I am underfunded too, I spend to much, just like the school districts. However, I learned early in life to pay the important stuff first. No tax makes people better off, just like no law makes people more free. Without the federal tax burden, the residents of Alaska could afford to send their kids anywhere besides the failed public school system.
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Because they're pathetic hypocrites.\n\nDon't forget, they also allow corporate welfare in the form of massive tax breaks. While the rest of us pay and pay and pay. Not fair.
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In Canada, there is universal health care, which means, regardless of your income, as long as you are a citizen, you are entitled to treatment from a doctor anywhere in Canada.  The provinces provide the support structure for the medical system which is jointly paid for by the federal and provincial governments.  It also extends beyond Canada's borders depending on the circumstances.  This comes from the sustained Canadian belief that to profit from people's suffering is wrong.\nUnfortunately,  the poor tend to suffer more illness than the rich.  So the more poor you have the more expensive the universal health care system.  By establishing an income standard, such as universal healthcare,  the poor are entitled to the same treatment as the rich.  This eliminates a disparagement of income and ensures the general health of the entire Canadian population.
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Generally, low developing countries are poor ... not just the people, but the government itself. And for the government to meet its obligations, it often simply makes more money -- but this additional currency leads to the devaluation of the existing currency and leads to inflation.
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Yep. We have similar problems up in Canada with another ethnic group. We welcome immigrants, if its legal. Otherwise they live for years absorbing money without paying taxes, and sending a good portion of this money back to their home countries, where it is no longer is able to add to the nations economy.\n\nBTW-illsuitedwan... what's your definition of illegal???Illegals do NOT pay taxes, they are paid under the table (illegally) to avoid getting caught.As soon as the IRS recieves tax information on an illegal, the department of immigration is notified and deportation process begins.  Unless unemployment in the US (and Canada for that matter) is at zero percent which it has never been.  then there are 'legal' citizens who need the work, and would pay taxes. Employers get away with hiring illegals and paying them far less than the minimum wage (because they're illegal), automatically putting these people below the poverty line. So how is this helping them?
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Not much to understand. Just another way of the government to tax us and waste, steal or misuse the money.
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I think you are asking why government employees pay taxes. It is simple - because they are workers first, government employees second.  In some localities, government employees far outnumber private sector workers. If government employees didn't pay taxes, then the local governments would fail.
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The main thing people will gripe about is that Canadian corporate tax is a few points higher than in the USA.  However, employers in the USA end up paying a lot of money out for health care, while in Canada the government covers most of that cost.  So it works out fairly evenly.
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Because more poverty is caused by governments than solved by governments.\n\nIn the US, Johnson started the War on Poverty. 40 years and trillions of dollars later, we have more poverty than we started with. Government is not the answer.\n\nThe problem is that giving poor people money does not solve poverty. It creates dependency. If you look at some of the very depressed inner cities in America, you are looking at what happens when you pay people not to work, and you pay women to have illegitimate children.\n\nWhatever you subsidize, you get more of.\nWhatever you tax, you get less of.\n\n10 years ago, when Clinton finally signed the Republican welfare reform bill, throwing lots of people off welfare, they just got up and went to work. Amazing how that works, no?
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It is mostly tax to fund the government
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Because the government doesn't give a damn about the poor. Capitalism doesn't give a damn about the poor. It's a survival of the fittest my friend.
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By some of the answers they skipped school can't read nor understand. Facts as you state the Richer pay a higher percentage, the poor pay none in fact they get a rebate not their money the richer give them for not earning enough the liberal way its the money us tax payers pay and I work for it they don't,  most. The ones that try I don't mind helping but not forever. You are not my dependent