Income Gap Between Richest And Poorest Canadians Widening: StatsCan

No surprises here, it's exactly what we've been discussing on vive for some time. If the rich were taxed appropriately we wouldn't have this problem. Also, besides being rich, they write off so many of the things that many lower income people could only dream of having, never mind writing off...like nannies, or daycare, the company usually pays, many children recieve allowances which are written off as they 'work' for the company, their vehicles, and gas expenses, their clothing costs, and on and on....We are not dealing with a balance in any way shape or form!

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

Social and economic justice is being dismantled due to this corporate fascist / globalization thing.

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Dave Ruston

i'm not going to feel 'sorry' for welfare moms, new immigrants or aborigines. They can all go out and get massive loans and buy 'wealth' like the rest of us. lol. This is how it's done: Buy a home, then refinance the mortgage in one year. My buddy the Adjuster, will tack on an extra 10 Grand, and tada, instant wealth.

Aborigines, immigrants and single mothers all get government support, especially single mothers, they get a whopping amount from the ex even if the Father is better at raising the kid, doesn't matter the court is so anti men, especially if that man is a white dude. Immigrants have a problem? y'know what? I don't believe this. Multi-cultism is a policy that has helped immigrants. The real losers are the second generation Canadians whose parents came to Canada when there was no policy of family re-unification. They were told to make it on there own. No help in bringing over more members of the clan, especially if they hail from Europe.

Yeah, it's real tough in Canada for some groups, problem of course, it's the group you never hear anything about... Guys, Fathers, screwed out of seeing their kids, but having to pay the lazy *censored* her easy lifestyle.

So I'm guessing that anon is a grumpy Dad who didn't get his kids on Easter? There are horror stories on both sides of that issue, believe me, but that isn't what is causing the gaps between rich and poor...most single mothers are not living on welfare, they are part of the working poor...you are making huge generalities about various aspects of Canadians and not really looking at the issue here IMO, but I hear your anger and welcome you to post when you can look at the whole picture...also hope you can get over that anger when you see your kids, cause children really don't understand the venom, they just want their parents to love them!

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

these kind of stories are pure Booolshiet. The statist loving social welfare do-gooder, who has no clue of money, its creation, re-cycling, and destruction, yes, the good, the bad and ugly, they all have one thing in common! ME First. lol. People of Vivre, get it into your heads: Capitalism means there are winners and there are losers. It is much more important that the system maintain a means where the poor can rise to the top. Not have artificial constraints that focus' on taxing wealth generators, and distributing the money to the idle, stupid and lazy.

As for the angry Dad, yes, it's a terrible situation for Fathers. They are compelled by biology to spread their seed when the dud they are with becomes a useless leech. Today the great socialist STATE is the great satan, and steps in to be the new Father. They will be the first to take these kids and conscript them into their bogus wars. it's the plan.

and you guys thought the corporate world was evil.. i got news for you... the STATE is culpable, the sooner everyone learns to live without them, the better.

pure Booolshiet...really....hey dimwit....learn your history before you put down...get your facts strait....corporate world always played in the free interprise system like gangsters....they are ruthless and evil and deadly.....plus corporate world never gave a rat's ass about nobody but themselves...not even their shareholders...they use people and life like vampires...free enterprise not likely....the old saying " do as i say and not as i do " that's corperate world for you....they are the scourage on this planet....and all the wars and misery comes from corperate world....like the banks for starters.....for them misery is profit...and corperate world loves misery.....i have nothing aganist free enterprise, if it is done fair and square...which coperate world knows is a joke......it's all about power and money....money rules...the more money you have the more power you have....and corperate world will make sure that is the way life is lived......unless someone has a better idea....

"In the nineteenth century the great American and Canadian railroads were built with government subsidies and the achievement was attributed to "free enterprise". After the second world war the great American and Canadian highway systems were built with taxpayers money and the roads were called "freeways". It is evidently easier to use the word "free" as a self-enhancing epithet than as an accurate adjective." - Thomas Szasz

Class war STILL exists!

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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.

No doubt Roy. To Anonymous #2: You are absolutely right. In a Capitalist system there ARE "winners" and "losers" (if one is judging by purely economic indicators), but that doesn't mean that we should just say "*censored* off, too bad" to those who have it worse than we do. The fact that there are so many "losers" suffering under the boot of Capitalism indicates that perhaps these losers exist BECAUSE of the ways that the Capitalist system operates. If we are to function as a good and just nation, we must take into account our downtrodden. Otherwise, we are a fractured and unjust nation at best. Peace.

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"There is no substitute for militant freedom." --US President Calvin Coolidge

<br> <p><b>Welcome Vitali St. Peter</b> We look forward to conversing with you. <p>Kevin (not signed in at another location <br> <a href="http://www.kevingagnon.ca/">www.kevingagnon.ca</a>

Hey, thanks!

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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill