Shit gets spread on all platforms. One day, a government might get brave enough to regulate or legislate against disinformation campaigns.

I was being flippant. 😉 I'm not usually the target audience for CPC ads, but today, it made it through the battlements. Good to know about the new framework though. Thank you!

2025 is the date on the graph.

Agreed! I'm suggesting that it's time to readjust the tax burden reflect the real economic realities of 2025 or the Libs risk losing a huge (disgruntled) chunk of their voter base. An $840 reduction in income taxes isn't going to help offset the other sunk costs or income lost to wage stagnation. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Ahem, Mr. Carney... www.kelownanow.com/watercooler/...

$100K *should* be more than enough to live on, but when you're living in places under higher inflationary pressure, it doesn't stretch the same way. Those two middle brackets get mightily squeezed.

Graph is from the G&M - sorry, but the article is paywalled. 🫤 apple.news/AlqyVTfM2TJK...

Gov't needs to adjust income thresholds to better reflect inflation and regional economic pressures.

It's illustrating the tax burden in Canada vs. tax relief. There's a huge discrepancy after $110K. They're paying the most into the social contract while receiving the least from it...which is fine, when there isn't an affordability crisis.

Anyone who comes into my comments with "you should be managing your $$$ better" would do well to keep their opinions to themselves. Xennials and Millennials are the workforce, and we're getting bupkis and stagnant wages.

I get it, we live in a social democracy, but throw a bone or two to Generation Squeezed, ok? #cdnpoli

The missing middle is in plain sight, yet successive Canadian governments stubbornly refuse to throw crumbs to us, and wonder why we poll highest towards change in government. 🙄

We look good on paper, but we carry the highest amounts of debt, the highest interest rates, highest housing costs, and we're sandwiched between child care and elder care. We have zero access to benefits or programs intended to address costs of living, yet we carry the costs.

The missing middle is still missing from this budget. We carry the highest tax burden, we have no access to social benefits. Our kids don't qualify for student loans, our parents can't afford elder care. I don't care about bank fees - interest rates are killing us and housing is unaffordable.

I'll reserve judgement.

So are we. The safety net is stretched thin. We're a recession away from the same. It's not a time for conservative economic policy, and a huge opportunity for enhanced social programs, enhanced access to social programs, and time for UBI.

Yellow vesters, freedom convoy, grievance politics, large scale strikes, addictions crises, housing crises, inflation, populism and propaganda campaigns...it's simmering. We're in the 20s. Literally.

We've seen this income disparity cycle before. The government response to obscene wealth can't be to extract another pound of flesh from the plebs. 🤷🏼‍♀️

As a kid growing up in the 90s cuts nationally AND in Alberta, nothing good comes from cuts. We are creating future problems when we take from the vulnerable, and those are always the first programs to go. Business never seems to bear the same burden.