Yes, it is the only grocery store for kilometers, and the only option for me to personally shop at.

A sales tax is an income tax. Whenever a grocery store sells an item, they pay 10% to the government. Are you accounting for other ways grocery stores can make money outside of sales (I’m ignorant on what those could be), or do you mean that grocery store managers (individuals) should be paying higher personal income tax?

edit: I have learned that a sales tax is technically something the consumer pays, not the grocery store, but that seems more like semantics to me. It shouldn’t matter if you tax every individual item 10%, or the total sales number 10%, it will work out to be the same.

I don’t know, I’m not American, probably military or bailouts for friends?

I may be misunderstanding things, but did Harper not follow though?

https://globalnews.ca/news/2202138/did-harper-really-run-eight-straight-deficits-like-the-ndp-liberals-claim/

GOP slashes social budgets, but then ramps up spending in other departments. As I understand, overall spending under trump before the pandemic was at an all time high.

How would this apply to a small, neighborhood grocer VS a large chain like Loblaws? If both are paying the exact same dollar amount, we’d be severely overtaxing one, or undertaxing the other.

So what you’re suggesting is that we repeal the income tax entirely and instead raise the sales tax on all items sold?

A grocery store pays a small amount of whatever they sell to the government, regardless of whether or not they make any profit in a given month (GST & PST). If at the end of the month, they’ve made more money than they’ve expended (grocery stores have massive expenditure as they have to buy all their products from producers/wholesalers) they pay an additional tax on-top of that, as I’ve understood.

Grocery stores are a service (and a risky one at that), and as such still need to make at least a small profit otherwise nobody would operate them. I imagine that by raising sales tax, it would be consumers who absorb the tax, and not management.

I’m not sure I follow. Are you suggesting all grocery stores should pay a fixed amount of taxes based on a preset number, independent of their earnings in a given month?

Do you mean they need to tax revenue? From what I understand income and profit are the same thing.

It seems to me that what’s resonating with Canadians is the promise of reduced inflation though budget cuts. The GOP has a very poor track record regarding excessive spending in America, so there’s that difference (in messaging) at least.

It seems to me people like PP because of their stance on inflation, which for most is the single biggest issue facing Canada today. Cons are proposing budget cuts, and the NDP are proposing a grocery store tax as solutions. People will probably be more favorable towards whichever solution they think will be the most effective.

“Conservative and Bloc Québécois MPs voted in favour of an NDP motion calling for an inquiry to include a look at attempted interference not only by China but also Russia, Iran and India. The Liberals voted against that motion.”

Conservatives and NDP in agreement for once.

As I understand it, meta has announced they will be deplatforming Canadian news and links. In retaliation, the federal government will no longer pay for advertisements on their platform.

Wanting the government to spend only as much as it earns seems like common sense to me.