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Ontarians Urged To "Voluntarily" Pay More Taxes To Cut Province's Debt
Christmas is a time for giving and that is what Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is asking of her citizenry. With almost $300 billion in debt, and almost 1 in 10 dollars of revenue going to pay interest, and already facing the highest tax rates in North America, The Star reports that Ontario officials are asking that 'patriots' voluntarily donate their tax refund or write a cheque to defray the province's massive debtload.
As The Toronto Sun reports, Canada’s largest province has asked its taxpayers to donate their hard-earned money to the cause of bailing out the much indebted provincial government.
For a mere $21,000 for every man, woman and child in the province, Ontario could be debt free.
No, this is not some kind of holiday joke about the Grinch who stole Christmas.
On top of paying among the highest taxes in North America, and coping with skyrocketing hydro prices — hikes directly caused by the decisions made by this Liberal administration and the previous one — the Wynne government wants more.
Treasury Board Chair Deb Matthews made the bold request last week, and specifically asked folks to donate their tax return rebate to help pay off the provincial debt.
“It’s an unusual thing for someone to do, but I would encourage any Ontarian who wants to make a contribution to feel free to do so,” said Matthews.
A government asking for donations isn’t just unusual. It’s like a stranger taking your car and then coming back the next day to ask if you’ll chip in some money for the gas. Maybe you can pay for an oil change, too?
But the Wynne government is desperate for cash.
For the past decade, they’ve spent and borrowed like there’s no tomorrow and wasted public funds with little concern for taxpayers.
Thanks to all the government’s reckless spending, including a pile of billion-dollar scandals that have led to criminal charges, Ontario’s government is dealing with spiralling debt.
Nearly one in every ten dollars spent by the Ontario government goes towards paying interest on the provincial debt.
Ontario’s provincial government owes approximately $300 billion. That is $300,000,000,000 — with 11 zeros.
And so the government constantly looks for ways to get its hands on more cash.
Perhaps most surprisingly, the government’s plea for donations has not gone unanswered.
Ontario collected $135,289 in voluntary tax return donations last year. Around 36,000 people chose to donate an average of $3.75 to this bizarre cause.
At that rate, the government only needs another 80 billion donors and Ontario’s debt will be paid off.
Of course, there are only about 14 million people in Ontario, and we imagine most taxpayers would rather lose their wallets than enable this government with more resources.
As The Toronto Sun concludes, rather "cynically" and "unpatriotically":
Tell the government to cut wasteful spending, and save your donations for those truly in need.
One wodners how long before non-volunteer-donators will be labelled enemies of the state?
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Socialism is never having to say you're sorry for being economically illiterate.....
would love to see Kathleen's tax return.
I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for an Ontario hamburger today.
I have a better idea.... why don't the Ontarians default on the debt, and screw the banksters?
Premier Kathleen Wynne are you donating too and how much ????
Send a check for one dollar with a message that you are a patriot and they will get the message. They will spend more time and money to process, but will get the message
I am not sending shit to anyone specially to save the current system we have in place in the west
PS: ZH did you post the wrong picture , the Kathleen that I know is a dyke and looks like one
here picture with her partner https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Flifesite-cache.s3.amaz...
That is the Honourable Deb Matthews. Her current Royal titles.
Minister Responsible for the Poverty Reduction Strategy
Deputy Premier
President of the Treasury Board
PartyOntario Liberal Party
She was the previous Minister of Education.
She gave us the new sex education program which teaches that there are six genders.
The new program was created by a University Prof and pedophile.
Please move here it truly is a Utopia.
That ugly broad is asking for volunteers?
Seriously?
That would be taking one for the team and she should pay YOUR TAXES if you hit up on that walrus.
Why don't they just ask Schmuel Steinowicz at the Canadian Fed to print some more dollars? That's how we do it in the U.S.
ontario could probably make a few extra bucks selling a contact list of those who donated (patriots / suckers), if i were in telemarketing i'd buy it for sure!
I'm from America. Can I send them a check? -- JY
LEAVE THE BANKERS OUT OF THIS ONE!!!!
eastern canadians are some of the densest voters in the world - make each & every one of those liberals pay the $21,000 out of their own pockets. Ontarians think voting liberal is smart so now they can PAY UP!!
“Let the Eastern Bastards freeze in the dark” - yours truly,
Signed: The Province of Alberta
(On average, Albertans pay $5,600 more in taxes to the feds then they receive, meaning that Ontarians should be delighted to pay only $21,000 because the average Albertan household has subsidized eastern Canadians with several hundred thousands of dollars to pay for TRANSFER PAYMENTS)
We have progtards blowing our own nation apart, this is up to all Canadiens to resolve. Though on that score the recent election putting that clueless beta male in office is not a good omen.
Be glad you are only seeing Matthews. She's chubby and unattractive but she's an absolute beauty queen compared to the Wicked Wynne of the West, who left her husband and children to join her carpetmunching friend, and went along with her now-convicted pedophile deputy minister, whose new 'sex education' program (that teaches 11 year olds the proper way to perform fellatio) was actually designed to 'groom' more children who might be confused by the all gender choices offered, and thus become new fodder for their perverted desires.
The Wicked Wynne took a page from the Hildebeast's book by having her minions wipe clean the hard drives of her email servers, so that there was no paper trail to show her complicity in a billion-dollar power plant cancellation.
The arrogance and stupidity of this Liberal gov't...but I repeat myself.
And here I was thinking Miss Piggy is back, and someone is owed a royalty check.
ANd the new sex ed curriculum was designed by a man currently in jail for engaging in sexual intercourse with his 12 year old daughters:
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/former-ontario-minister-repeate...
I think that is the wrong picture:
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/12/26/wynnes-plan-higher-payroll-taxes-ca...
The picture is the other women mentioned in the article; Deb Mathews.
Thanks
Kathleen Wynne is the one in the blue dress.
I think they did, she doesn't look like the photos I have seen.
From her bio:
Education
Personal and Family Life
Dyke with no real education. Hey, she took a training course at Harvard and puts it in her CVC. Pretty sad.
That picture is of Deb, the dipshit Matthews. One of Wynne's dumber cabinet ministers. She gets sent out to make these dumb press conferences when the Bulldyke is too embarrassed to do it. She is a sister in law to another premier Liberal lying fucktard, David Peterson.
Send them a cheque for a dollar that bounces, then they might get the idea!
fixed it for ya!
Watch them sic the OPP on you for fraud.
Funny how only the sheeple can commit fraud.
Why don't those spending the money like it is endless start acting like patriots and cut government by 75%, then turn themselves in to law enforcement for trial on theft and corruption?
I'l send them a small donation in exchange for a passport. It would be nice to get out from under the kenyan nigger's health insurance scam.
Becasue Wynne, like those before her, are hoping to brownnose Bay Street so she or a member of her family will be allowed entry in to the Canadian banking nomenklatura. It's why Obama is towing the line. He's ensuring his two daughers can revel and party and yet still manage to "succeed" like the Bush twins, or to manage to get them cushy NBC jobs like Clinton's kid got...
Can't screw the banksters because their ear canals ain't big enough.
+1000
That would be ideal, but they would then need a balanced budget since nobody would lend them money for several years. Besides, I doubt bankers still own that debt. They probably sold it to pension funds.
If the people ponied up the 300 billion (which is a stuipd idea) , the effect that most people dont understand is that "$ 300 billion" of cash in circulation will be "destroyed" , and removed from the economy. Bad idea. A better one would be for the "
Bank of Ontario" to start issuing their own, debt free currency, maybe in parallel with the CDN dollar.....and you can use that to buy goods and services. Banksters wont like it, and the politicians are to stupid to promote it as a solution. It is the "only solution" I can think of.
now dat be some lovin'...
Nice. You beat me too it
When I read some to the comments posted to this thread, I start to gain respect for Canadians. Going along to get along just results in people like your premier wynne screwing you out of more money. I guarantee you, when she leaves office with her honey, she will be far richer than you.
Compared to this useles eater, I miss the like of Bill Davis. Now he knew how to run a province and its budget. And keep undesirable immigrants out.
Back then, being a Tory actual meant something other than being a bankster's lackey. RIP, Bill.
That's not the Bill Davis I remember:
"...During his nearly 14 years as premier (and nine years as Robarts’ minister of education), Davis was an activist leader who had no compunction enlarging government (education spending increased 450 per cent during his nine years as minister of that portfolio).
As premier, Davis never balanced the budget and routinely had double digit annual spending increases.
He created Canada’s first ministry of the environment, a new government-run airline, and the provincial television station TVO. He established regional governments, thus creating another level of government for cities and towns. He also provided direct funding for city transit systems.
Davis brought in new programs for seniors including a Guaranteed Annual Income Supplement and a drug plan...."
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/the-bill-davis-myth
But ...it's for the children!
Is that why Scandinavia's Social Democratic model outperforms America in everything from infrastructure quality to educational standards to social safety nets?
Is that the same socialist and rapidly turning Muslim Sweden dreamland that has the worlds highest rate of alcolism, drug use, depression and suicide that we be talkin' about?
Remind yourself that Swedish land owners pay more than 100% tax. Yes that is possible, since land taxes even non productive are not deductible from salary. Meaning that in several years, you must sell parts of your land to pay taxes.
So that all the illegals can be taken care. Enjoy while it lasts.
It is almost impossible to amass any significant wealth let alone becoming 'rich' in any of those paracitical cesspools of misery!
Don't forget the rapes, courtesy of their beloved muslim immigrants...
Well, Itchy, you're being completely unfair, singling out actual quality of human life, when Lars was just advancing a few UNESCO metrics.
What's the difference between Canadian and Scandinavian propaganda? Canadians don't believe theirs.
You are talking about the same Scandinavia where the people are POOR? The average income is similar to the US and Canada, except Norway where it's about 20% higher. Income taxes are higher than anywhere in the US, and similar to the highest in Canada.
That means average AFTER TAX income is LESS in Scandinavia.
Now, add to that, ALL goods and services, including housing and food, are double to triple the cost in the US and Canada. And on top of those high costs, there's a 25% sales tax on everything.
Sure, there's "free" healthcare and subsidized education, but that's the same as in Canada, and without all goods and services costing 2 to 3 times, and with half the sales tax.
Wow, ain't socialism grand. It brings everyone down to the level of the lowest.
Cost of basic VW Golf
USA - $19k
Canada - $22k
Scandinavia - $45k
Average after tax income
USA - $36k
Canada - $34k
Scandinavia - $40k (Norway, Denmark. But in Sweden and Finland it's much lower)
Now compare that to the COST OF GOODS and the 25% sales tax.
Yeah, those "social safety nets" drawing in a massive influx of young mahommedan males is sure something for everyone to envy!
You aren't very well informed. The top 3 countries for (highschool) academic excellence are consistently Japan Finlad and Canada according to the OECD.
And we are urging all politicians who incurred the debt to voluntarily go fuck yourselves.
Now that the bili is coming due, just look at all these people suddenly complaining. Pepole screaming for more healthcare (there's TONS of waste there but in Canada, that spending is as sacred as a Hindu cow) and more student loans so they don't have to pay for their kids education. Very few, if any, even bothered to posit the idea that wasteful spending on themselves (*cough* baby boomers *cough*) would eventually bite us in the ass.
A Canadian friend returned to Canada after several years in South America and went to the doctor in her town to re-register. She was told that they do not accept new patients. Go figure that out!
It is not hard to figure out at all. If the doctor is any good he/she will have all the patients he/she can handle. Hence they do not have the ability to accept more patients. After my doctor died of a rare cancer it took me a couple of years to find someone just as good.
Your friend is looking in the wrong place for a doc. They just need to go to the nearest Superstore and the walk-in clinic will be happy to see them -- but good luck getting anything beyond urgent care levels of treatment.
How about just saying fuck you to the bankers and not paying any interest
Hey hawk nation, governments don't borrow from banks, they sell bonds which are then bought by pension plans, so if govt stopped paying interest, millions of honest retirees would suffer.
Boy are you a simple kitten.
The Treasuries are being bought by the Fed. At first it was through intermediaries, then directly.
Let that sink in kitten thing.
Treasuries are backed by what? The US taxpayer. Who is on the hook to the Fed for buying these? The US taxpayer. What is the limit of the dollar amount the Fed can buy? Come on, give it a guess kitty, come on...
See the crime for what it is, the US Government is running a check kiting operation with the Fed. It is all thin air because we have the world's reserve currency and the second the world calls our bluff, the value of their dollars will go to ZERO!
Meowsers Kitty!
What needs to be taught to the worlds people is that because the US has the reserve currency it can print all the money it needs to spread democracy around the world.
So, to all the people that want to beat the US, QUIT USING THEIR CURRENCY
Plain and simple. Approx 40% of US cash is not in the US it is scattered around the world. The countries that are receiving the democracy from the US .gov use this currecy everywhere on the street level. Irony
Missy is correct, again. The problem is that the solution - put your wealth into hard currency (i.e. real stackable precious metals) is risky also......for once the music stops and there aren't enough chairs, us stackers will be declared unpatriotic, and our stacks will be confiscated. (It is only fair, right? It is for the good of the state, right?) (Not that I can think up a better place to stash it, however....)
that was mean't to be a joke, right?
What Ontario needs is it's own currency.
No they should actually charge around 500% more for the electricity that gets exported over the border and that debt wll be gone in a couple of years if they keep the budget spending at current levels of expenditure. Then they'll have a surplus.
NAFTA is over for now and forever. It's a worthless lopsided agreement, just time to throw it in the garbage.
You're clearly retarded. Right now, because of our stupid Liberal policies, we produce wind and solar power that we lose money on, and then have to sell that to Americans at a greater loss. 500% more? Why would Americans pay $1.00 Cdn (as we pay 21 cents per kWh from solar) for power that they can produce more cheaply on their own?
They already have their own currency - Canadian Tire coupons.
You mean socialized fucking everthing doesn't work? Tell bubba trump
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Here's a thought you worthless, parasitic politicians. STOP SPENDING BEYOND OUR MEANS. We know that even if we did pay all this debt off now out of our savings, you would just borrow and spend more leaving us completely destitute. F**k you!
In fact, let's take away your credit card you charge-aholic! From now on - no more borrowing. You're supposed to answer to us and we are tired of being told to sit quietly in the corner while you destroy the economic well-being of future generations.
NO MORE DEBT!
"STOP SPENDING BEYOND OUR MEANS"
But if they did that they couldn't afford to keep turning all your children into trannies. Now we couldn't have that could we?
Can anyone show me a female politician who is not a fucking clueless moron?
The rich jews know all to well, gentile women will destroy themselves if given the opportunity to do so.
And of course, the so called 'men' (wasnt canada started after washington freed all the cucks who worshipped the monarchy and moved up there so they could pay taxes to the monarchy) cuck along with that air of canadian supremacy they have going on.
Most nations seem to be run, peopled, by cucks and feminist women who hate themselves.
Thanks jewish hippie sky god. There isn't anything your followers won't fuck up.
More importantly Diogenes, can you show me an honest man?
Sad, only three people got my joke.
There are three Semitic desert religions. Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Between these three cults a lot of mischief has occurred.
Islam is a different GOD and non-compatible beliefs. Don't you dare equate the endless goodness and mercy of Christ with that evil.
You forgot /s
mr ghost of D, not sure you needed to include the word politician in your question
I for one stand ready to defend your right to be gay. Leave bamawatson alone you homophobes (unless of course bamawatson is a self hating woman).
Women are certainly very socialist centric and comfortable in their thinking of big bloated bureaucracy. (Just look at that pathetic babe in the pic!) They love the idea of nanny government tending to their security needs (despite that government lives off them) as a replacement for the husband which they do not have! I though women were smarter than that but it sure looks like that was wishful thinking!
What was Thatcher like?
Fuck them
This is side splittingly funny. As if any government debt would actually ever be paid off.
Not when voters demand spending on themselves and their ridings...
Whoa - clearly you are forgetting Puerto Rico, Greece, Argentina, Mexico, nevermind af.
Ontario officials give up your salary, bonus and pension and I will pay more. You crooked fuks.
Wow. I just...wow.
Your NIRPles hurt, don't they? I know Canadian ass does. Kinda like American ass, all butt raped and stuff.
just start hangin' 'em in canada and everyplace else. just hang 'em.
Will work for food, your food bitchez....
I pick up pennies and Save Gold
Now if I was a multi billionaire and they would actually use the money to pay off the debt, which I doubt they would, I might consider it.
So you are an enabler.
This fresh new dynamic visionary progressive marxism has pretty well eliminated any chance of you ever becoming a 'billionaire' or anything close to it!
Please call and pledge now. The first 1000 callers receive a free "I love Ontario" printable bumper sticker, tape not included.
At the next level of "support" for an additional $21,000, callers will receive a free "Ontario Loves Me" condom and lubrication kit.
Premier Naughty Naughty Kathleen Wynne has already stolen all the money that her kleptomaniac Gubbermint can steal without incurring the wrath of taxpayers beyond what they have already expressed. If this muff-diver dyke carpet-munching Linguist wants moar dough she can mug the Pillsbury doughBoy, or start picking Canadian dollars off of the money trees planted in Queens Park.
p.s. You should see her <cough> husband.
Note: The bitch ain't getting nothin' but the middle finger.
I seen her face before, at first I thought it was a workbench from shop class.
ZH may have the wrong picture of her
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/12/26/wynnes-plan-higher-payroll-taxes-ca...
Edit: I am wrong, the pic is of Deb Matthews, the one who actually had her tin cup out.
If something isn't voluntary, what is it? If you are not giving consent, what is happening?
You can give it voluntarily now or we'll just fucking take it later. Isn't that what you really mean Kathleen......?
Yup, they have been finding all kinds of creative tax increases over the last little while. They will tax themselves out of business in the long term... Until then, fuk me!!
Courtney Love looking a bit hagard these days..
Could this patriotic donation be written off the following yr.?
They call it Onterrible for a reason.
I left that shithole province 20 years ago. It's the only place in the entire world where I've ever been threatened to be murdered with FIREARMS... twice in one year... by ______ and you can fill in the blancks.
Nope.
I cannot fill in your blanks.
Spit it out coward.
The last thing I will ever do in this world is take requests from wankers with bags on their heads.
Phil Kessel ???
Raptors fans
Pigs?
by "people who annoy you"?
his spellling of blanks might be a clue.
The deluded voters only have themselves to blame for re-electing this freak show lezbo and her collection of sexually perverse incompetent progressive misfits. I think she still has 3 criminal investigations on her illegal management going on. The liberals are proof positive that there's nothing more expensive than a socialist/Marxist! Short the province!
+1 for freak show
This'll work about as well as India's gold monetization plan.
Dear Ontario, this is (in part) why you find yourselves in this quagmire:
http://www.windontario.ca
And remember that the Ontario (government) made it 'illegal' for residents to have a say in this wind boondoggle shit.
Seriously - really, what can you say?
Working in Ontario, I've never seen so many bureaucrats running scared trying to justify their existences in my life.
It's so bad, the government is trying to get all the unions to strike to balance the budget.
Here's a tip for you Wynne, audit your employees' expenses.
It is a well known that restaurants give out the same expense receipts for the whole table to each government employee patron on the provincial and federal levels.
Just 1 in 10 to pay interest??
USA will have that beat in no time
How much are 300 million kidneys worth?
DEFAULT! - It does a body good....
You guys are so unfun!
Don't you just love corrupt inept leftist socialism, ah more taxes please
Good examples of the sociopathic moronic scum that we humans keep putting in office time after time without a strict criminal law saying they cannot borrow money in the peoples name. We are the humans that "hired" these scum, are we not ? They work for us ? So why do we allow them ALL to take our money our freedoms and our right to happiness at the point of a gun and the threat of kidnapping and the torture of being locked up in a cage ? And for what? For a parking ticket, a burnt out tag light or something the "Authorities" made up on the spot to meet a quota by way of the armed robbery of peaceful people ? Sure, we comically admit that "we" voted these criminals into office but then what?
You stupid dipshit. If you want to talk about sociopaths, talk about Harper and Mulroney who signed the fucking free trade agreements that got us into this mess. Harper took Canada's overall liabilities from 750 billion to 2.5 Trillion whie adding not one fucking iota of new business. He should be hung and you along with him.
Where did you come up with "Harper took Canada's overall liabilities from 750 billion to 2.5 trillion"?
Canada's federal debt went from 457 billion in 2005 to 611 billion in 2015...adjusted for inflation.
The Auditor General said that the federal budget was balanced in July 2015 before the election. The finance department indicates that Trudeau will run up a 25 billion dollar deficit this year.
Your overall use of foul, and ignorant language combined with delusional math, indicates you to be a Liberal, possibly from Ontario.
These debts are compounded by the fact that Pierre Treudue Quit using the Bank of Canada's Constitution that allows .gov's (Fed, Prov, Munical) to borrow money @ almost ZERO interest to fund gov projects. see COMER
http://www.comer.org
These people in power along with their pensions are a CANCER to the populations...
Their will be no stopping this cancer til the sheeple wake up!
Why should a gov worker get a great pension when the rest of the people don't?
Kill the gov pensions now!
Socialism kills!
If you think this is pathetic just wIait until you hear the weirdos strategy for paying the debt back!
The political class in Ontario has had its citizens by the balls for years. It hasn't mattered what party has held the purse strings from the so-called right wing Conservatives to the left wing New Democrats, but especially the more recent 'central' Liberal governments, the Ontario debt has ballooned over the past couple of decades and been sold to the masses by the neo-Keynesians and a compliant media as necessary and good for us.
Crony capitalism and corruption have run rampant throughout the years and has only increased the past decade with the latest group of sociopaths in charge.
Any one who voluntarily pays more taxes to this group of criminals is a fool.
http://olduvai.ca
Ontarians just need to look next door to Quebec to see how much of a shithole their province will become soon
Wouldn't this make her a queen instead of a politician? Chop her fool head off.
"Let them eat Poutine?"
Can't suck the blood dry from BC and Alberta any more Toronto?
GOOD!!!
What a great "leader". What's next? Give us ur first born?
Perfect, chronicling the collapse of socialism is a new hobby of mine.
"Here, how about 10 or 20K refugees to house, feed and cloth for the rest of their lives as I get invited to Bilderberg, suckers." - Prime Minister Selfie
Toronto Saurus rex, toronto saurus rex
tiny in the brain but enormous in the neck
Taller than the CN tower and larger than Quebec
Don't mess around with Torontosaurus Rex!
FUCK YOU ONTARIO!!
ok i feel better now :)
Is she "working" for free? No? Wtf?
LOL +1 of course she fucking isn't. She stole your car and now is back at your door asking you to fill the tank!!
She doesn't want your car. She has a chauffeured limousine paid for by the government. Now she wants to take the bread out of your children's mouths to pay for it. Try to keep up.
That's OK, their new school curriculum teaches 8 year olds to stick cocks in their mouths, and asses. No need for bread in Ontario schools
That's not a joke btw.
Kathleen, why don't you just go after the 111,000 workers on your "Sunshine List". We all know you could find more competent people to do the same jobs, for half the salary. Just put a salary cut into their next contract and hope they leave.
Those 110,000 are her only guaranteed votes next time.
True - but the conservatives last time had the alternative of CUTTING a hundred thousand gov jobs. Take your pick. And OPSEU already recommended the NDP. Did you try the math? It amounts to billions per year.
Since all these government "workers" are all whores they should give blow jobs and donate the $5 a job.
Convert to Taka for b.j. rate prease. No CRA agent speaks engrish.
Tell this dumb bitch to voluntarily off herself.
"My Lady, if it's voluntary then why is there a gun pressed to my head?"
In my town a group wants to raise taxes to spend more on schools. It goes down 70%-30%. The school sets up a donation system. Anyone want to guess how much the 30% that voted for the tax increase donated??? You'll find the answer in the first 4 letters of this site.
Sure, no problem. Where do I send the check?
Keep the Czech, send in the Syrians!
Grunk, c/o Zerohedge,
If you are confessing to being a tax collector...
"Tax" implies that I need to give it back.
"Tax Collector" implies that I work for the gov't.
Give this dumb bitch a monkey and an organ and stand her on a street corner.
she's got the monkey, and doesn't use organs.