Marc Elgin

ex Canadian Military, small business man, middle class. My super power is cynicism.

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@mario4thenorth every single dollar we earn gets taxed several times over. In the end, this government is like a casino- they always win- we don’t

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

You will never meet a person who’s more anti-socialism/communism than someone who escaped it.

Every person who’s pro socialism/communism has yet to experience it.

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@MLBChris73 @TristinHopper the bigger the "crisis", the bigger the government grants.
No crisis, or problem finally solved = no more money.

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@DrJacobsRad Only if people actually go out to vote, so don't hold your breath.
There's a reason why so many city councils are dominated by far left wing activists who just keep on getting easily re elected

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@terrynewman @dkreative1 it’s time to abolish the Toronto Star

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

The Great Scam

After what @GadSaad posted yesterday, something I had no idea existed... an "Exit Tax" I did some digging.
This is what I found.

Canada's departure tax is one of the biggest scam taxes on the books. Apparently when you leave the country, the government treats you as if you sold every investment you own, even if you sold nothing.

You get hit with a tax bill on money you never touched, never withdrew, never spent. They literally invented a fake sale to justify taking your money.

Here's what makes it even worse. The stocks they're taxing? Those are foreign companies. Apple, Samsung, whatever you hold, those grew because of what those businesses did in their own countries, their own markets, with their own workers.

Canada had absolutely nothing to do with it. Zero. But they still want a cut just because you happened to live here while you owned them. They did nothing and still want to be paid like they did.

And before 1996 this didn't even exist the way it does now. Chrétien's government expanded it that year and buried it in section 128.1(4)(b) of the Income Tax Act like they hoped nobody would notice. Italy doesn't do this. Portugal doesn't. Belgium, Switzerland, the UK, none of them pull this shit.

You paid income tax every year. You paid sales tax. Property tax. You held up your end of the deal the whole damn time. And when you decide to go live somewhere else, they hit you with a bill for money that was never real to begin with.

Canada under any Liberal is a Scam!

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@RosieRocks28 They need Liberal “experts” to tell everyone that everything’s A-ok
In an attempt to lure and lull the public that the CBC is an “unbiased” news source

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@RegularTxGuy @itsrosesm Exactly.
There's been a concentrated effort to label anyone who might have been leery of the Covid shot because of the extreme government & media push, into people who refuse ALL vaccines, and refuse every kind of medical science we have. Complete dehumanization

[Alix @AlixG_2]

I don't understand how you're pissed with Elon Musk getting rich with his own money but not pissed at your politicians getting rich with yours.

[Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman]

This is the 11th announcement on reducing food prices from the Liberal government.

Food prices have gone up after every one of the last 10 announcements.

Try cutting taxes. Food packaging costs or inflationary spending that drives up food costs.

Please no more strategies.

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@FoodProfessor Tax Canadians to death, then give out little tidbits and claim they're saving us.
How much of that fund will be doled out to the bureaucracy in order to administer this, I wonder

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@alanfryermedia unfortunately, we have both

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@FoodProfessor I think it's the other way around.. the Liberals have been doing this for years- successfully, I might add.
Tim Horton's are just playing by that winning recipe.
Why? because in Canada (especially east and central), it works

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@jonkay @MarcMillerVM "Denialists" he calls them..
People asking legitimate questions.
These Liberals have become experts in making and keeping our country as divided as possible, because it has benefitted them politically.
@MarcMillerVM you're and your party are a disgrace

[Fringe Truth @TruthFringe]

Donald Trump - The President of another country is responsible for everything happening in Canada. 🇺🇸

Mark Carney - The Prime Minister of Canada is NOT responsible for anything happening to Canada. 🇨🇦

See how stupid that sounds?

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@FoodProfessor Because "pouting" actually gives them political gain (for some unknown reason).
Even to the detriment of our country and our economy.
Political gain is #1 goal for these Liberals

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

I need the government to lock up criminals, defend the nation, build infrastructure, collect the bins, and a few other services - basic research etc. I’m not an anarchist or anything.

What I don’t need from the government is moral instruction. I don’t need them to tell me how to raise my kids. I don’t need them to nudge me into better dietary choices. I certainly don’t need them hamfistedly backdooring my devices to check I’m not doing anything they don’t like.

GTFO of my life, thank you. You’re not smarter than me, you aren’t qualified to manage me, please leave me alone.

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@jonkay @vincentneilho nowadays, asking for large fries with your burger is probably also deemed "disgusting anti-trans behaviour"

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@mario4thenorth JFC... how many countries around the world and how many months do we have???
Where does it end??

[Marc Elgin @XenosFilotimo47]

@brianlilley I think the bigger problem is that even though that is the case, constant polling suggests that a whole lot of Canadians are perfectly happy with that