Sam Barrow
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Sam Barrow
@SammyBarrow32
Follower of Christ Jesus. Chiefs and Jayhawks fan! Avid football watcher. Love puzzles and challenges. Failure at housekeeping. Detest vegetables 😝
شامل ہوئے Şubat 2023
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I’m unable to deal with the theft of much of my accrued book royalties and other creative endeavours. I’ve worked night and day for decades; nearly all of my money was generated outside of Canada, yet the provincial and federal governments felt that they are owed more than 55% of my earnings even though my taxes on my professorial salary is already more than what most Canadians pay in taxes. It is a criminal exercise bereft of fairness or morality. I hold out hope that I will somehow be granted financial cosmic justice.
Viva Frei@thevivafrei
Professor Gad Saad Discovers Canada's "Exit Tax" and It's CRIPPLING! Former Lawyer Explains
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@blastmeme02 @WallStreetMav Oh, for fucks sake (since the GIFs apparently no longer say fuck 😡😡😡)
GIF
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@WallStreetMav These are false flags by the Zionist party. They literally said we need to make the world Affraid of Muslims again on their national TV.
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It’s amazingly consistent.
When Muslims move into an area, churches that existed for centuries just mysteriously start catching on fire.
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@newstart_2024 I would guess many of them have easy access via walking for fresh and local foods. We have mega stores full of ultra processed food and whole foods shipped from across the world, thus not fresh or local.
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French women don’t get fat, and Mireille Guiliano says it’s simple:
They eat for pleasure with all five senses. Slowly. No calorie counting, no low-fat nonsense. Real butter, chocolate, duck fat, in moderation. They rarely snack, skip soft drinks, and prefer walking over jogging.
The numbers back it up: France has one of the lowest obesity rates in Europe at around 10% for adults. The US sits at ~41% for women.
What’s your take, could this pleasure-first, slower approach to eating actually be healthier than constant restriction?
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Yep, the $55k in student loans I took out for law school was for a useless degree, since the corrupt State Bar of Arizona won't let me back in to practice law unless I pay $101k, the cost of the inflated bar disciplinary proceedings against not just me but my two superiors. How is that not the epitome of corruption? I always say I'll be paying off those loans until I'm dead, can no longer make huge payments on a journalist's salary.
Ball Room Blitz 57@BallRoomBlitz05
Most of the degrees were useless for everyday carrers. Colleges over charged for useess degress.
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@MikeLee27211787 @michaelsgordon Depends on who is determine what wealth is. Politicians desperate for more money will decide that wealth is entire subjective.
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@michaelsgordon Wealth tax is wealth tax. It will never apply to middle class
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The federal income tax was first only applied to super “wealthy” individuals. Now everyone needs to file a federal income tax return. The wealth tax on billionaires wil eventually be applied to you — just like property taxes.
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@michaelsgordon Except, the bottom fifty percent of taxpayers pay zero or minuscule taxes.
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she should resign. this is a scandal
Henry Burke@burkehenryt
Gillibrand's son graduated from undergrad on Sunday. Today it's reported that he's received $30 million in venture capital funding to launch a derivatives exchange. His mom sat on the Senate Agriculture committee—which has jurisdiction over derivates—until this past year
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@bewarephog I don’t know who the players are until the season starts!
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Remember when we saw Kansas basketball highlights and knew who the players were. That was awesome.
Kansas Men’s Basketball@KUHoops
June hoops 🤝
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@SteveOnSpeed Loans are not inherently predatory. They provide the means to acquire assets long before a person could afford the full payment. You have the option to pay them off as early as possible.
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It’s tough to make the argument that student loans are usury when they voluntarily signed on the dotted line.
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@SteveOnSpeed Especially when the rates are no where close to usurious 🙄
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@peterrhague “Essentially” is pretty much the issue. He shouldn’t have been out on a pass.
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@jamiekwil He’s already essentially under 24/7 confinement.
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The 30 year old man who tossed a 3 year old into the crocodile enclosure has been released on bail.
Before you get outraged; understand he is apparently a man with learning disabilities who got away from his carer. This might be negligent but do you expect the police to detain him and look after him?
There is some easy outrage to be had here, but nobody wants to have a discussion about the serious flaws in adult social care, and how we deal with individual such as this. It’s not cheap, for one thing…
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@peterrhague I expect the police and the judicial system to protect citizens from truly dangerous individuals.
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@marctremblay75 @anniedufour99 Wow. Work hard and be happy the government takes 50% of your income? Oof.
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@anniedufour99 When I complained about paying way too much in taxes, my father said: “If you’re paying a lot of taxes it’s because you’re making a lot of money. Stop complaining and invest everything you can into your future”. I did. It worked out. Not sure Mr Saad deserves a Go Fund Me.
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Mr. Saad, my father is a surgeon and has been taxed at the maximum of the tax bracket since he started working. He worked 80 hours + weeks, nights and Christmas. Never has he complained about being taxed like this. He has always believed in wealth redistribution.
Stop the pity party, will you ?
And as you so "wisely" taught us, do not expect any empathy from from us.
Sincerely, Québec, Canada.
#cdnpoli #polqc #onpoli
Gad Saad@GadSaad
I decide to leave Quebec/Canada because: 1) the taxation system is astounding, rendering it nearly impossible to accumulate enough money to truly retire 2) the government's open immigration policies have made it unsafe for my family to remain here (due to the exponential increase in Jew-hatred). Today I found out that I shall have to pay a departure tax for exercising my right to leave, and the money that will be taken from me (because the obscene amount of taxes that I've already paid in full is not enough) will be given to new incoming immigrants who hate Jews. My taxes funded my forced exit and will fund the harassment of any remaining Jews in Canada. It would take me 10+ more years of work to save the amount that is likely to be taken via the departure tax. Is this moral? Ethical? Just? In any case, off to bed. Tomorrow is a new day.
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@anniedufour99 Would your father voluntarily spend an equivalent amount on wealth redistribution if not forced to do so???
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@gjbangar @The_Plain_Bagel Really? I didn’t know the US had an exit tax because I never even considered leaving.
Kind of like saying all citizens should understand corporate taxes simply because it is in the US tax code c
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@The_Plain_Bagel Its also been something Canada has done for a long time. Shouldn't be a surprise.
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This post is being circulated by a bunch of American accounts who seemingly don’t realize the US does the exact same thing.
It’s called a deemed disposition - all your capital gains are “realized” and charged taxes before you leave.
It’s not uniquely Canadian.
Gad Saad@GadSaad
Following a very difficult meeting with my accountant, I just found out how much it is going to cost me in terms of an "exit tax" to leave Quebec and Canada. No human being in a free society should have their hard-earned money stolen in this manner. I'm genuinely numb. I'm speechless.
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@kingerkingmusic @The_Plain_Bagel If I don’t live in the US and don’t enjoy any of her services, why should I pay US taxes?
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@The_Plain_Bagel U.S. allows for non-residents … that’s why the country has a huge problem of collecting fair share of taxes from u.s. citizens leaving around the world.
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@decompiled_dev @The_Plain_Bagel Why should they collect the capital gains just because he moved. They aren’t realized gains.
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@The_Plain_Bagel Seems crazy he's "just" realizing this. Like I agree taxes are too high, but the capital gains taxes are upfront.
If they didn't do this IDK how they'd be able to collect the capital gains taxes which are half the rate of regular income.
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@The_Plain_Bagel Okay? It’s wrong no matter which country does it. 🤷
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@ToddLlewellyn I loved OT. On Sundays and holidays it was 2x. Easy money!
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It always surprises me that my employees don’t want to get overtime. I understand being burnt out at 40hrs but getting paid time and a half would be hard to pass up.
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@kencu_web @mario4thenorth Why would a country have a right to your investments just because you leave???
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@mario4thenorth And nearly every other country does the exact same thing, including the US. And rightly so. Why should you expect to leave with a ton of untaxed accumulated wealth and give the taxes instead to the next country you move to? That’s insane policy.
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Gad just learned about the Canadian “exit tax.”
It’s very real.
It’s one of the reasons our brain drain isn’t bigger than what it already is.
It’s a form of entrapment.
There are successful entrepreneurs who have highly profitable businesses, that do not leave because their business would be taxed as though it was sold, a deemed disposition, at fair market value, but they don’t have the money to pay the tax on it.
Think of it as an acquisition happening, but with you getting no money, and instead a tax bill as though you made a captain gain (profit) on selling your business.
It’s like the mafia.
You can’t leave without paying a price.
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