There's definitely a lot of truth in that saying and I'm certainly well aware of my shortcomings as is my wife. Hey, that didn't sound quite right.
I look at your COL estimates and to use one of your examples someone earning say 200k in Canada will pay approximately 43% or 86k of it to Federal & Provincial taxes unless they establish some elaborate tax defferal scheme which usually just delays the pain. Then they will pay an additional 14% in the form of a Goods & Service Tax (GST on everything) and a 7% Provincial tax (PST on most everything) for a total of an additional 14% on after tax dollars as well as a host of other hidden taxes such as fuel, property, etc again on after tax dollars (after tax dollars is the 86k less the 200k leaving 114k which is referred to as our net income). The long & the short of it is I would take your system in a heartbeat precisely for the reasons you have stated so well in this thread.
Would you be able to give me a rough estimate for say the cost of an average family of 2 adults, eating average stuff, for an average 7 day week.
How's the plans for the Retired Pilots Rest Home coming along? Some of our guys were thinking it would be like a layover with a per diem, transportation to and from the airport etc
