A few days ago, an open source microblog named “Identi.ca” came out of nowhere and suddenly grabbed the attention of many twitter users who are tired of the frequent server outages. People are already starting to say that identi.ca may rep…

It’s really not that tuff.

@gwalter (almost everywhere)

“As Crocs Departs, Quebec Turns Bitter”

“Crocs, which is based in Niwot, Colo”

Colorado also took the Quebec Nordiques, and even the Expos left. Nobody wants to deal with them. Nobody wants to deal with people that want to take all of your profits and sink them into failed communism and force you to speak french whether you like it or not. That’s bullsh1t.

“This is a pure case of savage capitalism,” Raymond Bachand, the Québécois minister of economic development, innovations and exports, told reporters. “They decided to flush away Quebec.”

When business owners in Canada decide that they want to make a profit it’s over. Realistically, the only way to have a successful small business is either to join the corruption in govt or to leave.

It’s not wise to deal with companies that are severely crippled by their own govt like this.

I think Twitter needs the competition (just because downtime wasn’t enough to make them get better!) They are currently working to repair its system architecture. A decentralized one is certainly beneficial.

This is a direct link to the 2007 T2

“and for tax years starting after May 1, 2006, any corporation with taxable income that is not subject to the
corporation tax rate of 38%.”

To see the individual provincial forms you can visit the provincial websites and gawk at those rates too.

The really horrible thing, is that like the soviet union where they took all of the athlete’s money, and inventors such as the creator of tetris,

They don’t actually come through and provide the services they say all this money is paying for.

I want to clarify. These taxes, though they represent 35% of the total cost after the gas and the tax are combined, are actually about 53% over the original price of gas.

http://www.petro-canada.ca/en/media/2128.aspx

cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/t2/t2-07e.pdf

“and for tax years starting after May 1, 2006, any corporation with taxable income that is not subject to the
corporation tax rate of 38%.”

That’s T2 federal only. Provincial is 30-35% more. That’s about 70%, which is why most corps spend 95% of their gains before the end of the tax year on purpose. You simply can’t build up capital in such and environment.

I could go on, but the numbers are all online. The workers comp one is especially bad. If you have an employee making 100k a year. They will pay about 35k in source deductions, and you will have to pay another 30k in “employer side” EI, QPP, and QPIP, where as workers comp is MUCH cheaper.

Go ahead and order something from TigerDirect.ca in Quebec, see if you can skip the provincial tax like we can with interstate purchases here.
See if Harper will let you off the hook for the GST or paying 40 times what it costs for health insurance here for a healthy person?

Go to the hospital and try to get reasonably quick service or an operation for cataracts or another common illness? If you want to get it within a year, you’ll have to take a medical vacation.

Go to BDC and ask for funding after you paid these outrageous taxes. See what they say. See them laugh at you for having been stupid enough to be trapped in their socialist system.

That is Canada.

Just like the fact that the govt takes 40-50 times what health care would cost a healthy person in the US in taxes but does not provide dental care,

The govt takes about 10 times the cost of workers comp in “employer side” EI, QPP, QPIP and does not provide you with professional, fire, theft or any usable insurance.

Our insurer was William J Henry in Montreal. We had a policy with them for 2 years which was to expire in October of this year(2008).
http://williamjhenry.com/

The professional, fire, theft insurance in Canada is about 5 times that of rates in the United States for software. I am not sure what it is for other industries.

The govt controls so much in Canada, and returns so little, that any investment there is a waste.

That just might be the 1 difference that matters.