Thread: Occupy Wall Street around the world.... Your thoughts and feelings about it!

Originally Posted by Crocodile

Please, don't take that personally, as that seemed to me being a very valid concern: Canadians ‘Occupy’ Toronto, Montreal in Wall Street Protests - Businessweek


One of my socially-oriented friends joined and later on said there were all kind of people there. Some of them were more sober and motivated and others just gathered to plainly smoke pot and hang around.
Also, the taxes in Toronto (a very Liberal city) are quite high, but apparently that's still not enough.

The taxes (property tax) here in New Jersey are quite high also, but apparently that's still not enough.

Scott

Originally Posted by fortheether

The taxes (property tax) here in New Jersey are quite high also, but apparently that's still not enough.

Scott

Well, it's not only the property tax, but the land transfer tax in Toronto is twice as high as anywhere else in Canada. Just for the sake of it. You can wake up the next day, just to find another $70 yearly tax because you have a car. Just something to cover their expenses with. The province of Ontario (which is Liberal) recently found that it would be very beneficial to tax all goods and services 13% (and it was just 5% or 8% on some goods and services before July 2010). Mostly, the new increase influenced the fuel costs, but, hey, the basement dwellers don't have to drive, do they? And so on. The Conservative federal government had been reducing their tax (from 7% down to 5%) and the Liberal provincial government is happy to cancel that positive economic effect because, hey, now people got some money available, so why not?

Originally Posted by Crocodile

Well, it's not only the property tax, but the land transfer tax in Toronto is twice as high as anywhere else in Canada. Just for the sake of it. You can wake up the next day, just to find another $70 yearly tax because you have a car. Just something to cover their expenses with. The province of Ontario (which is Liberal) recently found that it would be very beneficial to tax all goods and services 13% (and it was just 5% or 8% on some goods and services before July 2010). Mostly, the new increase influenced the fuel costs, but, hey, the basement dwellers don't have to drive, do they? And so on. The Conservative federal government had been reducing their tax (from 7% down to 5%) and the Liberal provincial government is happy to cancel that positive economic effect because, hey, now people got some money available, so why not?

Mostly, the new increase influenced the fuel costs, but, hey, the basement dwellers don't have to drive, do they?

That's so funny

Isn't it funny that some people from big cities that can use public transportation want everyone else to drive less.

Scott