Unify Action - June 17, 2025


Time To Decide, Canada： MORE Welfare Or LESS Taxes

Hosted by
Sarah Dotzert
Mentioned
Trudeau
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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

195.11

Word count

450

Sentence count

15

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode, we talk about our government's overspending and the debt that they have accumulated over the past decade. Should we cut back on government spending so that we spend within our means, or increase taxes just so we can keep these social programs?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 What do you think about our government's overspending and the debt that they've accumulated?
00:00:04.100 In general, I'm weary of increasing spending, I would say.
00:00:09.120 I think we should spend within our means.
00:00:10.640 Personally, I think it's one of the biggest issues.
00:00:12.880 Previously under Trudeau's government, there was a lot of overspending that was occurring in a lot of unnecessary areas.
00:00:18.460 It was doubled, so yeah, that to me is bad.
00:00:21.500 Because then we're having problems where we're borrowing money and I think we should focus more on oil and stuff
00:00:26.300 versus maybe like spending a little bit less on maybe some social stuff that we were already really good in.
00:00:31.040 Like the drug use facilities, for example, I think those are really beneficial.
00:00:35.080 And like a lot of the programs on like education on like LGBTQ communities, I think that's really like important. 0.98
00:00:40.960 I think overall some things I think are non-negotiable, like the first ones that I mentioned.
00:00:45.060 Over the past 10 years, the local government has increased our national debt by twofold.
00:00:49.840 Where do you fall on the issue? Should we cut back spending as much as we can so that we spend within our means?
00:00:54.680 or should the government introduce more taxes just so we can keep these social programs?
00:01:00.180 Taxes feel quite high.
00:01:02.180 In general, I am, I guess, weary of increasing taxes
00:01:05.180 and I would probably prefer to see some cuts as far as spending into some programs.
00:01:13.180 Living below our means, basically, yeah, that would be the better option
00:01:16.180 rather than increasing taxes and stuff.
00:01:19.180 They tax us too much here.
00:01:21.180 if we need to increase taxes to support programs like drug use facilities and education on like
00:01:25.020 different communities i think that is um fine yeah i think taxation it reduces productivity
00:01:32.780 and it'll incline people to leave and i think what canada needs to do if anything would be to
00:01:37.420 actually lower taxes to get more businesses to stay here so yes i do i think that over taxation
00:01:44.220 is bad for the economy economy although it's a little bit political i think something like
00:01:48.700 doge is is needed because i think if people do look into government spending and actually reduction
00:01:55.340 rather than adding more parts to the government i think that's that's the greatest place to start
00:02:01.420 what do you think could happen if like the debt gets way out of hand your dollar just goes into
00:02:06.620 into nothing you won't be able to afford a lot of things and it's a very worrying thing and i think
00:02:12.380 I think that we have a chance as one of the leading countries to stop it before it gets too bad.