Covid 2nd Wave....fact or fiction

[MarkB]

The outrage that was raised (it was a political debate) that a 'dependant ' child living in a household with an income over $135K should never have been able to able receive the CERB...their situation was not in need of "emergency benefits".

Apparently the lack of scrutiny in the application process has allowed a great deal of these stories...to the tune of an estimated $45 million. It was suggested that yes the CRA will be able to recover a lot next Apr.

I don't see how ... most of these kids were in grade 12 (and 18 years old, age of majority) and saving up for University Expenses ... you think it's okay to punish them, just because mom and dad make $135k a year? And by the way, in Toronto $135k a year ... you're not rich, lol, you are just making ends meet ...

[fishermccann]

What your parents earn should have nothing to do with getting the Cerb benefits.

[fishfood]

3,972 years ... let's call it 4,000 years IF there was no interest attracted on the debt ... which is incorrect. That level of debt at 1.5% interest attracts $21.7 billion of interest PER YEAR. Therefore, $1 million per day, or $365 million per year, inadequately covers the interest. It would take an infinite amount of time to repay the debt, because you cannot service the debt ... you would have economic collapse, and possibly a war, to cancel the debt ... only way out, IF you can only afford to pay $1 million per day.

Tax every person a dollar [emoji857] a day [emoji1787][emoji3526]

46 million people in Canada [emoji108][emoji383][emoji383]

I was at Sobeys 2 days in a row donated both times. Can't even tell ya what it was for [emoji23][emoji1787]

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[fishermccann]

FF , everyone in Canada or just those working?

[fishfood]

FF , everyone in Canada or just those working?

Why not everyone, we could push it all towards home owners I guess . Why leave the scum that sit on welfare out it lol. We are all in this together [emoji4]

Ps it would still be cheaper than 500 a said per person months ago . You said it was too much [emoji28]

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[oaknut]

Tax every person a dollar [emoji857] a day [emoji1787][emoji3526]

46 million people in Canada [emoji108][emoji383][emoji383]

I was at Sobeys 2 days in a row donated both times. Can't even tell ya what it was for [emoji23][emoji1787]

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Lmao, I'm taxed for 43% of my earnings already!

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[Tigboy 304]

No worries justlied said the budget will balance itself remember.

[canadaman30]

Yet they don't even use masks in the schools in Denmark.

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Yet we are being told here, people that don't wear masks are the problem..I guess Denmark doesn't listen to media hyped fear and can think for themselves by using common sense.

[mosquito]

Hmmmm ... let's look at the facts,
1) taxes ... who cares about the small change, it will be taxed and taxed and taxed again in Canada. The gov't set the qualifications and if they don't fit it will be clawed back at tax time, many are already doing the equivalent of working from January to July just for the gov't, not for themselves. The LIbEral gov't is increasing taxes and spending without a care and screwing the next 2 or 3 generations alone on this years fiasco while lying and showing incompetence and contempt for working Canadians, disabled, vets, seniors etc..

Average Canadians pay 42.5 per cent of their income in taxes
https://globalnews.ca/news/3691159/c...ser-institute/

2) The numbers, do they actually show a new wave... or just faster testing and a clearing up of a huge backlog?
https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...s-need-context

As the province has increased testing capacity, it has also seen a backlog of tests waiting to be processed. Last Wednesday, there were more than 48,000 tests waiting to be processed. By Sunday, that figure had grown to 65,061.
More than 15,000 of those were processed on the weekend and the province now reports a backlog of 49,586. So, the dramatic increase in new cases is partially driven by tests done last week that were processed only on the weekend. This is not a true one-day total.

3) duh ...as for the media coverage of anything, CBC kisses LIbEral a** and repeats what the money provider tells them on any policy.... so any "CBC facts" are irrelevant to real facts based on morals, science, ethics etc. ...

[MikePal]

Yea nothing is tenacious as the CRA when it wants it's money HaHa...

More than 7 million Canadians have applied for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit — but CBC News has learned that some of them shouldn't actually be getting the $2,000-per-month payment.

And those receiving the money who aren't entitled to it could be putting their own financial futures at risk.
One Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) employee said she deals regularly with people who aren't qualified to receive the benefit but are getting it anyway.

She said she spoke with a senior collecting a pension who applied for CERB on behalf of herself and her two disabled adult children.
"I noticed all three of them, living in the same household, are getting two $2,000 cheques," she told CBC News. (The second cheques are retroactive payments.)
"So, $12,000 all on the same day. None of them were eligible."

CBC News is not disclosing the CRA employee's identity because she said she fears punishment for speaking publicly about what she's seen.

In many cases, people who don't qualify for CERB are being encouraged or even pressured into applying by family and friends, said the source.
"When I quiz them about it, there's a variety of answers, from laughing in my face [to] trying to establish that there's some loophole," she said.
Few realize that they'll have to pay taxes on the additional income and could see clawbacks of other benefits, such as tax credits or the Guaranteed Income Supplement, the source said.

Some inmates at a jail in Trois-Rivières, Que., have been sent CERB cheques, according to Radio-Canada. Correctional Service officers intercepted the payments when they arrived at the prison.

The federal government said it is aware of that report and maintains such errors would be caught later by CRA.