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Methinks Mr Scheer may have to come up with a better plan now that he has to debate his old buddy Max in 2 Official Languages on National TV N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/09/conservative-leader-andrew-scheer.html

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-leader-andrew-scheer-universal-tax-credit-1.5284500

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer promises tax cut to save average taxpayer hundreds of dollars

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One day later the comment section is still open yet the tally has shrunk as per CBC's MO
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David Raymond Amos
Methinks that whereas Maxime has been allowed to debate him and the other leaders one would think the Mr Scheer has come up with a new plan by now N'esy Pas?

Vincent Bobb
let's see, $444 per year is $4440.00 in 10 years, nice chunk of cash, with my spouse $8880.00 ....nice I will enjoy

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Vincent Bobb: Oh My how easily some people are bought by campaign promises then sold out by desperate politicians if perchance they get elected EH?

David Peters

I guess Andy was so impressed with Harper's massive deficits that he wants a piece of the action.

"The costly cut is similar to a major tax change made by the former Conservative government.
Under Stephen Harper, the government cut the Goods and Sales Tax (GST) to six per cent in 2006 and then again to five per cent in 2008. According to PBO calculations, the cut cost the federal treasury about $14 billion a year in lost revenue."

Stephen Milligan

Reply to @David Peters: Cons always cut taxes. Which is odd for the party which always used to say ... run government like a business. Do they still say that? A successful business NEVER voluntarilly cuts their most important revenue stream

Vincent Bobb

Reply to @David Peters: fake news

Vincent Bobb

Reply to @Stephen Milligan: you don't understand business...

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Vincent Bobb: Methinks folks should Google my name and the CRA and KPMG if you wish to understand why I scoff at your bragging N'esy Pas?

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @David Peters: Methinks those are just one of the many reasons why somes folks call him Harper 2.0 or Harper Lite etc. N'esy Pas?

Rob Aldred

While I do like this graduated tax rate cut for the lowest income tax bracket, I'm still utterly perplexed how this up to $6 billion annual loss in government revenue AND less government revenue due to Harper 2.0 Scheer's tax credits AND a promise to continue to fund healthcare transfers and other federal social programs, is it even realistically feasible at all for Harper 2.0 Scheer to be at all "successful" at also balancing the federal budget too within 5 years!!??

Vincent Bobb

Reply to @Rob Aldred: watch Scheer do it, they have a method, you will be impressed

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Vincent Bobb: Yea Right

Richard A Petrella

tax credits and cuts aren't going to make the price of anything "affordable"... i wouldn't be surprised if companies decided they could raise their prices because the market could bear a $440-$700 annual increase... dividends and bonuses must rise; or else...

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Richard A Petrella: I concur

Paul Christensen

This just goes to show how far removed from reality Scheer ,and JT for that matter are from what people face. In this case "hundreds of dollars" doesn't cut it. And neither do longer leaves from work for having a baby.....or subsidies .AKA child tax credits, do much good either. Make that thousands of dollars and you would be doing something for the majority of Canadians. Adjusted for inflation wages in Canada have gone up $2.70 since the mid 70s according to one study. At the same time corporate renumeration has been raising at 10% + a year. That dimples my friend is the root of the problem.

Richard A Petrella

@Paul Christensen - well said...

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Richard A Petrella: I agree in fact I am willing to wager that Scheer and Trudeau still don't have the first clue as to why I sued three US Treasury Agents in 2002 in two lawsuits but many other politicians and lawyers and cops certainly do.

David Raymond Amos
Methinks Mr Scheer may have to come up with a better plan now that he has to debate his old buddy Max in 2 Official Languages on National TV N'esy Pas?

Jim Doug
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Do you think saying 'methinks' sounds intelligent? Annoying yes, intelligent no.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Jim Doug: Methinks an Old Bard I admire is giggling in his grave at your insult N'esy Pas?

David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Jim Doug: "Annoying yes, intelligent no."

Methinks you may be intelligent enough to know that Old Shakes often made the Court Jester the wiseguy within his plays who often survived to tell the true tale. Perhaps folks should Google David Raymond Amos versus Her Majesty the Queen and start laughing at you N'esy Pas?

David Raymond Amos

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Methinks CBC forgot to close this comment section after it went into shock about Bernier being invited to debate N'esy Pas?

David Raymond Amos
Methinks Mr Scheer should ask the boss of the CRA The Honourable Diane Lebouthillier about the letter she sent me in 2017 about KPMG if he is truly serious and fair taxation Anyone can find it on the Internet just search her name and mine at the same time N'esy Pas?

David Raymond Amos
Methinks for the next month the onus is on Mr Prime Minister Trudeau The Younger and all the other parties who sat in the 42nd Parliament to explain why they supported the answer of the Harper government to the lawsuit I filed in 2015 before I put in before the Supreme Court. In my humble opinion the Federal Court Rule 55 is not only an affront to the Charter but a rather huge insult to all Canadians who truly believed that no one was above the law N'esy Pas?

EinarJohnson

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: What??????

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Go Figure

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-98-106/fulltext.html

55 In special circumstances, in a proceeding, the Court may vary a rule or dispense with compliance with a rule.
SOR/2004-283, s. 11

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @EinarJohnson: I posted the link to the law

David Hickie

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: You obviously have confused the Rules of the Federal Court with actual laws. Rules of a court, whether its Queen's Bench, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court or Federal Court are procedures relating to proceedings before those court. They do not have the effect of laws in Canada. There is no legal penalty to their violation, other than that the court may choose to throw out a claim or defence if the rules have been breached and doing so will not cause an injustice. What the provision you have referred to does, is allow the court to overlook minor technical violations of the Rules where it thinks it is appropriate. This provision most often is used where uneducated untrained litigants thru ignorance violate the Rules, and the Court is not willing to throw out an otherwise meritorious claim because of that.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @David Hickie: Methinks you should study a matter before you offer such an opinion. (Federal Court File Np T-1557-15) Issues of National Security are incredibly important and mob murders are capital crimes that cross borders and jurisdictions with no statute of limitations as to investigation and prosecution Furthermore the Constitution clearly states that nobody is above the law N'esy Pas?

Bill Denning
Trudeau cannot be trusted. SNC. Electoral reform. Gr op ing. Who is this guy?

David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Bill Denning: Methinks he is just another puppet for the corporate elites just like his daddy was N'esy Pas?

Dave Gilmore
Poor raggedy andy, you cheated to become reformer leader, and you will most certainly cheat Canada. giving monies with one hand and taking with the other.

Bill Denning

Reply to @Dave Gilmore: Gerald. Get a real job.

Jay Voorhees

Reply to @Dave Gilmore: Exactly

David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Dave Gilmore: Methinks there must be some reason I am humming a lot of old Pink Floyd tunes today N'esy Pas?

William Knot
I would settle for just scrapping the carbon tax, but I'll take it!

Mo Bennett

Reply to @William Knot: if you believe Andy, I've got a nice bridge up by Nipigon that I can sell ya reel cheap.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @mo bennett: YO MO Methinks Justin will by your bridge if you would only start sing his praises ASAP N'esy Pas?

David Mccaig
SORRY ANDREW nothing you can other , even for FREE will get you my vote.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @david mccaig: Methinks everybody knew that out of the gate N'esy Pas?

Daryll Mcbain
Canadians pay to much tax for the services we receive.
Also,
How come when Trudeau spends billions we don’t get to hear how much it costs?

David Allan

Reply to @Rob Davidson:
Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that affirms one's prior beliefs or hypotheses. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @David Allan: Methinks its not rocket science Hence there is no need of fancy words to explain that CBC will never bite the hand that feeds N'esy Pas?

Alexander Graham
I'd rather pay more for environmental responsibility

Mark Baker

Reply to @Mark Baker: the fact that Canadians are even thinking about what they can do shows the "carbon tax" is dong what it should.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Mark Baker: Yea Right

Harold Dyck
Four consecutive conservative provincial govts were just elected. Their common message, cost of living and spending our tax dollars wisely. No social justice warrior messaging, just simple kitchen table budget economics.
Oh ya, one more thing, Justin is not trustworthy.

David Allan

Reply to @Jack Slate:

" wynne had a 10-11B planned deficit...how is that less than 7B?"

Ford said it was $15B.

How is the reality not good? Why do you need to try to spin the fact that it was less than budgeted and half what Ford claimed?

Some of us live in actual reality.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Harold Dyck: True

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @David Allan: Methinks that is all true as well but your seemed have overlooked the New Brunswick provincial election that I ran in last fall for rather obvious reasons N'esy Pas?

Harold Dyck

Reply to @Onager Smith: You equate foolish spending with corruption and breaking the law? Where do you stand on the $8 million dollar rink Justin built on Parliament Hill?

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Harold Dyck: Methinks i should where you stand with Harper needlessly bailing out the banksters with our funds 10 very long years ago N'esy Pas?

"Banks got $114B from governments during recession
Support for banks 'more substantial than Canadians were led to believe': CCPA report
CBC News · Posted: Apr 30, 2012 9:55 AM ET"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/banks-got-114b-from-governments-during-recession-1.1145997

Bill Denning
Fire Trudeau. Cut sending billions overseas. Cut the vote buying money to Quebec. Budget balanced. Equilibrium and prosperity restored.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Bill Denning: Dream on

James Felding
Years of frivolous Liberal government spending on any, and all virtue signalling projects then Suddenly on September 15th 2019 all the Liberal supporters are concerned about budget deficits. Thank you for the laughs. Ever thought if going into stand up?

David Raymond Amos
Reply to @James Felding: Welcome to the Circus

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer promises tax cut to save average taxpayer hundreds of dollars

Under Tory plan, the average single taxpayer would save about $444 a year

John Paul Tasker · CBC News · Posted: Sep 15, 2019 2:31 PM ET

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announces that, if elected, his party would cut the tax rate on the lowest income bracket. (Olivia Stefanovich/CBC)

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer unveiled a new tax cut plan Sunday that he says will save taxpayers hundreds of dollars a year, a key plank of the Tory platform to make life more affordable.
Scheer said, if elected, a Conservative government would cut the tax rate on taxable income under $47,630 to 13.75 per cent from 15 per cent.

Based on the party's calculations, the average single taxpayer would save about $444 a year. A two-income couple earning an average salary would save about $850 a year.

"We're going to deliver a tax cut targeted specifically at taxpayers in the lowest-income tax bracket. This means that every Canadian will see their income taxes go down and those in the lowest tax bracket see the biggest benefit of all," Scheer said at a campaign stop in Surrey, B.C.

"This means more money to pay the bills, to save up for your kids' education or maybe even finally afford a family vacation," he said.

Cut will be phased in

The party said the tax cut will be phased in over the course of a four-year mandate starting with a reduction to 14.5 per cent on Jan. 1, 2021, then to 14 per cent by Jan. 1, 2022 and then to 13.75 per cent on Jan. 1, 2023.

Based on Canada Revenue Agency data from 2017, about 34 per cent of country's 27.8 million taxpayers have taxable earnings over $47,630 and thus will be able to claim the maximum benefit of this cut.

The other 66 per cent of all tax filers have lower taxable earnings and will see proportionally less of a benefit from the cut.

The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), the agency of Parliament that provides independent, non-partisan financial analysis, said the Conservative promise will cost the federal treasury about $14.075 billion in lost revenue between 2020-21 and 2023-24.

In subsequent years, the tax cut will mean roughly $6 billion less a year in federal revenue.
The costly cut is similar to a major tax change made by the former Conservative government.

Under Stephen Harper, the government cut the Goods and Sales Tax (GST) to six per cent in 2006 and then again to five per cent in 2008. According to PBO calculations, the cut cost the federal treasury about $14 billion a year in lost revenue.

Still committed to balancing the books

Despite the price of his proposed tax cut, Scheer said he is still committed to balancing the federal budget in a "responsible" timeframe.

"We're going to get back to balanced budgets while we find ways to lower taxes and put money back in the pockets of Canadians," he said, while adding a Conservative party would not cut social transfers to the provinces for programs like health care and education.

While initially promising an accelerated schedule of getting back to fiscal balance in two years, Scheer has since said he will balance the books within five years.

Politics News

Scheer maintains he will balance budget

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says his party is committed to balancing the budget while cutting taxes and maintaining funding for core services. 0:30

The tax cut announced Sunday is not unlike the Liberal government's "middle class tax cut," which was implemented after the last federal election.

However, that cut targeted the middle-income bracket — which applies on taxable income between $47,630 and $95,259. The Liberals reduced the rate of that bracket to 20.5 per cent from 22 per cent.

Taxpayer's federation likes it

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, an advocacy group that lobbies for lower taxes and smaller government, praised the Conservative plan Sunday, saying it will deliver "broad-based tax relief."

"Affordability is a key issue in this election campaign and leaving billions in the pockets of Canadian taxpayers is a great policy," said Aaron Wudrick, the federal director of the federation. "This income tax cut is exactly what taxpayers need: it would save Canadian families about $850 a year."

However, it's not just the first income tax bracket rate that would change with this proposal.

The Conservatives have already recalculated their previously announced tax credit proposals — for public transit and maternity and parental leave benefits — to account for the lower overall tax rate that would be in place as a result of this income tax cut.

Scheer did not say how it would affect other federal non-refundable tax credits — such as those for volunteer firefighters, search and rescue volunteers, home buyers, people with adoption expenses and for interest on student loans, among other eligible categories — which are all currently based on the lowest tax bracket of 15 per cent.

Fact Check
Middle-class mystery: Did their taxes go up or down?

Andrew Scheer promises to make EI maternity, parental benefits tax-free

Scheer makes election promise to remove GST from home-heating bills

On the affordability theme, Scheer and the Conservatives recently unveiled a campaign ad featuring the party's election slogan: "It's time for you to get ahead."

More tax promises coming

The Conservatives are expected to unveil a series of campaign commitments in the same vein as this tax cut. Already, they have promised a non-refundable tax credit on maternity and parental leave Employment Insurance (EI) benefits. They've also vowed to remove the federal GST from sales of home heating fuels.

Scheer has also promised to reinstate the federal tax credit for transit passes, which, according to party estimates, would save a family of four transit users in the Greater Toronto Area nearly $1,000 a year.

Like his provincial conservative counterparts, Scheer has railed against the federal Liberal government's carbon tax and he has vowed to scrap it if elected. The Liberals maintain the initiative will lower greenhouse gas emissions and will be rebated to most families at tax time.

Canada's tax system is a progressive one with graduated brackets, meaning rates vary according to the amount of income you earn — and you pay different rates on different portions of your income.
In 2019, the income tax brackets are as follows:

15 per cent on the first $47,630 of taxable income, plus
20.5 per cent on the next $47,629 of taxable income (on the portion of taxable income over 47,630 up to $95,259), plus
26 per cent on the next $52,408 of taxable income (on the portion of taxable income over $95,259 up to $147,667), plus
29 per cent on the next $62,704 of taxable income (on the portion of taxable income over 147,667 up to $210,371), plus
33 per cent of taxable income over $210,371

PBO report on Scheer's tax cut plan

Corrections

The headline on this story has been updated from an earlier version which referred to a tax credit. The proposal is for a tax cut.

Sep 15, 2019 4:36 PM ET