Juno News - February 09, 2019


Is Justin Trudeau planning on increasing your taxes？


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

174.51227

Word Count

650

Sentence Count

30

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 People were rightly outraged the other week when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added to
00:00:09.300 his latest growing tally of gaffes where he said that bizarre remark about low-income people and
00:00:15.940 taxes. So it was during question period and Pierre Polyev was asking him something of a rhetorical
00:00:21.340 question because they do that a lot in question period where he said, can you confirm that you're
00:00:26.160 not going to be raising taxes on Canadians a lot in the coming months and the coming years seeking
00:00:31.120 re-election of course. In October he gave the child fitness tax credit as an example of something that
00:00:36.440 the Liberal government had gotten rid of. Trudeau as a response had this to say that the Conservatives
00:00:43.700 don't understand that low-income people don't benefit from tax breaks because they don't pay taxes.
00:00:49.740 Well isn't it funny to listen to a trust fund baby lecturing Canadians about being too rich. He says
00:00:57.620 that people who take the bus are too rich and therefore should lose their transit tax credit.
00:01:03.380 Soccer moms and hockey dads, Prime Minister says they're too rich so he takes away their children's
00:01:08.820 fitness tax credit. At the same time he forces these same working class families to pay for his
00:01:15.260 taxpayer-funded nannies. Will he put aside the hypocritical class warfare and tell us the true
00:01:22.200 cost of his tax increases that he would bring in if he got re-elected?
00:01:25.720 The Honourable Prime Minister.
00:01:28.560 Mr. Speaker, we see proof that the Conservatives simply don't understand that low-income families
00:01:34.860 don't benefit from tax breaks because they don't pay taxes.
00:01:38.720 And a whole lot of jaws dropped and a lot of people said, what are you talking about? For starters,
00:01:45.520 low-income people pay a whole bunch of smaller taxes, sales taxes, sin taxes, the upcoming dreaded
00:01:52.060 carbon tax. And is he talking about income taxes? He never defined his terms. You go, okay, well I get
00:01:57.420 the point. Higher-income people pay a lot more proportion of the income taxes that are brought in.
00:02:02.260 But guess what? Low-income people certainly pay income taxes too. If you're making around $12,000
00:02:08.540 a year, which is not a lot of money in downtown Toronto, you can't rent an apartment for a year
00:02:14.620 for $12,000, let alone feed yourself and do everything else you need to live. But you will
00:02:20.100 pay taxes. You will pay hundreds of dollars to the federal government. Are you saying that those
00:02:24.360 people couldn't do with more money? But the ensuing furor and the outrage online and the
00:02:31.180 Conservatives trying to nail him, it was all justifiable stuff. But it kind of distracted from
00:02:37.040 Pierre Polyev's original question, which is, what are you planning to do?
00:02:42.660 Will he put aside the hypocritical class warfare and tell us the true cost of his tax increases
00:02:49.160 that he would bring in if he got re-elected?
00:02:51.700 And I think that's a good question. Because we're in this tricky spot right now where Justin
00:02:55.980 Trudeau is continuing to pile on the debt and deficit that continues to increase our borrowing
00:03:01.420 costs. He's not going to get rid of that. But economists are saying, well, if there's a recession,
00:03:05.820 things are going to get even worse. Now is the time when you should be paying down the debt.
00:03:10.860 So we're facing crunch time here where, let's just say, Justin Trudeau is re-elected. How on earth
00:03:15.840 is he going to manage the money? There's going to be budgetary pressures. Is he just going to pile on
00:03:20.660 the debt even more? Even if he does, like we said, those servicing costs go up. Where's he getting
00:03:26.160 the money from? Is he going to get it from you, the people? And if so, when's he going to fess
00:03:33.360 up? It's a good question. Is the prime minister planning any tax increases for now or in a future
00:03:40.920 term? And he didn't answer the question.