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The federal government sent me my monthly Old Age Security cheque and there was a huge increase in January 2013 from $544.98 to $546.07
Thank you Mr Harper for the extra $1.09 a month,
All seniors across Canada thank you for the extra $1.09
Every little bit heps!
Since we are old, we easily forget. How much did you spend on those F35s ? How does that compare to the extra $1.09 you sent me?
A buck nine, how......nice.......of him. Not even enough for a large coffee at Timmies.
Just trying to remember how much tax breaks he is giving Corporations.....I'll have to look it up. Maybe a buck nine as well? I hope so.....those poor Corporate owners and their share holders are just scraping through life.
Did Cretien give you any raises?
That's like talking about some past train engineer who crashed the train 3 times. He's gone, adios. All that matters right now is ..........is the new engineer doing better?
You need to shop weher the seniors shop.
Can't......I'm not a senior. Not that I buy coffee from Timmies or McD's anyhow. I prefer my own office made coffee or one gas station in the area that has great coffee! Oh.....and of course Coffee Culture....but that's a treat when I can get one. I like coffee you can stand a spoon up in, or pave roads with.
It must be nice all these seniors getting free money! Yet some of them are barely living! Some have homes in decrepit shape. Some live in areas where there is no hope for even part time work. They should sell off their homes and land and move to the big city like everyone else!
But to keep an open mind......I suppose they have an agreement with the government and they want it kept.....or they will get really angry!
"seniors getting free money"
???
Those of us who are seniors remember having to pay a special tax for our eventual Old Age Security.
When established in 1952, the personal income tax surcharge rate was 2%. That was increased to 3% in 1959.
It was increased again in October 1963 to 4%.
The old age security tax was eliminated effective 1 January 1972 when the tax was incorporated in the general income tax rates.
Not "free" folks. We paid for it.
I know Pierre, I know. I was just using an analogy, but you may have missed it.
Well puck……….first of all refer to post 11. It was not an attack on seniors. Do try and keep an open mind.
Secondly if you look at post 9 I said ….” Some have homes in decrepit shape”. Please note the word ‘some’. Why did you get so defensive and with a retort about your history? ‘Some’ elderly people do live in homes with a Lot of problems and they are barely trying to make ends meet. I know…..I’ve been in them. Others have been shown on TV. Do you not remember the elderly veteran who needed a lot of work done on his home and couldn’t afford it and out of the goodness of some contractors and another organization he got help. Or the disabled woman who needed a lot of work done in her home and others again helped her. Believe it or not there are a lot of elderly people out there who are in financial straights!
Nope! No agreement. No treaty.
Sorry but you do have an ‘agreement’ called the Canada Pension Plan……and if the government took that away or took any part of it away…….people would be outraged!!!
More likely ignored it
Probably. People hate it when they hypothetically could be in the same boat as others.
Analogies usually compare something similar.
Similar definition: ''Having a resemblance in appearance, character, or quantity, without being identical''.
Analogy definition: A correspondence or partial similarity.
They are……..’similar’.
Yes there is a difference.
a) They have agreements.
b) They own the land, it's theirs. Doesn't matter if it is in the past or not. There are many buildings and businesses owned by the same family in Canada for a 100 years and more. In England (where the Crown is) there are properties owned by the same family for hundreds of years.
"They own the land, it's theirs"
This has been your assumption all along.
Have you considered the possibility you are wrong?
Is it at all possible most treaties were signed with "Indians" who occupied lands but had no concept of "land ownership"?
When it comes to Aboriginal rights and treaties, history tells us things are not as simple as you generally present them as your line is always the same: "the owned the lands".
Nowhere in any of these treaties signed by our forefathers and theirs does it state the Crown (now the government of Canada) would send money for health care, or education, or exempt them from paying any tax (GST, HST, PST income tax etc...) other than the only tax in existence at the time (land or property tax). All these other taxes did not exist at the time.
Nowhere did it state they would have the rights on their reservations to sell stuff "tax free" to people that did not reside on reservations or territories.
It is the Canadian government and courts who have extended the meaning of "taxation" over the years. Today we see many bands asking for "autonomy" yet they want our money to keep on flowing. Is this fair?
Time has come to sit down with all of them and iron out an agreement based on current elements of society, not what existed then and cannot be replaced today.
