
Originally Posted by
kristy11
Quite a few misconceptions about Canada in here.
The cost of living in Canada is higher...............WAAAAAY higher than in the US.
Across the board, Federal tax is 5% on any purchase. Depending on which province you reside in, you pay an additional tax. In Ontario, that extra tax is 8%.
So, if you buy a new pair of shoes, you pay a total of 13% in tax on top of it.
Depending on your salary, you basically pay nothing with an annual salary below $25,000. The average salary is $59,000 in Ontario. Tax on that is roughly 30%. If you get a bonus, you're taxed around 46% on your bonus.
Here's great comparison. Take a car like a Toyota Camry bought brand new. Buy it from a dealership in NY State and it'll cost you $25,000. Buy it in Ontario, Canada and that car will cost you $35,000. Now ask yourself, if the Canadian Dollar is worth $0.97 USD, why the hell am I paying an additional $10,000 for the same car and the only difference between the two is that they are separated by an imaginary line?????
As to answer the $11 question, people have become spoiled. $11 jobs are usually jobs that most people feel are beneith them. When a welfare check is almost as close to monthly earnings at an $11/hr part time job (which most are), you may as well just sit at home and do nothing.
My solution to this. Dump welfare.
A problem that we were having up here for the longest time is so-call "seasonal workers" collecting Unemployment Insurance when they aren't working within the season of their job. For instance, if you're in certain kinds of fishing industries, you can only fish for 5-6 months per year. Currently, if you're in this industry, you then take the other 6 months on Unemployment. That's right...............you get paid for not working. Well the government has finally realized that the current system is no longer sustainable. So, what they're doing is changing the law so that if you are in seasonalized work, once you're finished you need to find another job doing anything as you'll no longer qualify for unemployment for consecutive years.
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