As someone who figured this out by mistake, this makes so much sense.
I stopped paying taxes (by intentionally dropping my income) because I realised that my government hates me and my kind. In doing so, I started receiving tons of money from the government without even asking. I got around $1500 this month for checking a few boxes on my income tax, and that's not even including the child subsidy.
I also recently learned that various fees are waved at my income level when I, for example, try to take my landlord to court. They, of course, have to pay.
Surprise, surprise, the income cutoff in Ontario is $35,000. Below that, I actually get money from my taxes. Not "I overpaid and get a refund", I receive an extra $800 from "anti-poverty" tax credit.
Honestly, I'd rather be working to earn money and pay into a system that would actually help me if I had an emergency, but that's not the situation we're being presented.
50 million deportations would fix almost all of it.
50 million deportations would almost solve the unemployment crisis, the welfare bubble, the housing market, and the crime problem almost overnight. Literally all the problems that we are experiencing since 2014 would be just about erased, just by kicking out a bunch of unproductive leeches.
I'm in Canada, it's insane how much being poor is incentivised.
But yes, every political issue is downstream from toxic migration.
Beyond that, eliminate income based supports; everyone gets it or no one does. Even living off of the poor tax cattle as I do, I can easily see that paying for services you can't access is retarded.
Then income tax or sales tax: pick one. I prefer sales because it disincentivises consooming.
Reminds me of the UK. Apparently the tax brackets there disincentivize people to make between 99k and ~140k where you pay more in taxes. Its archaic and stupid.
I used to work for a company that offered bonus work paid by the job (as opposed to hourly) to the employees who showed up and worked every day. One guy I know used to turn them down (and they'd usually pay out 2-3x the rate of a normal day for half the time) because his paycheck would be smaller with the increased income.
Ultimately, it would even out at the end of the year but, in the meantime, the payroll deductions jumped so high that it made it hard for him to pay bills.
As someone who figured this out by mistake, this makes so much sense.
I stopped paying taxes (by intentionally dropping my income) because I realised that my government hates me and my kind. In doing so, I started receiving tons of money from the government without even asking. I got around $1500 this month for checking a few boxes on my income tax, and that's not even including the child subsidy.
I also recently learned that various fees are waved at my income level when I, for example, try to take my landlord to court. They, of course, have to pay.
Surprise, surprise, the income cutoff in Ontario is $35,000. Below that, I actually get money from my taxes. Not "I overpaid and get a refund", I receive an extra $800 from "anti-poverty" tax credit.
Honestly, I'd rather be working to earn money and pay into a system that would actually help me if I had an emergency, but that's not the situation we're being presented.
You are able to do that due your unique set of circumstance.
As a single white male living off of my Navy pension, I don't qualify for any of it.
As for the article itself, it is from Nov 2025, and I remember it generated quite the splash on X.
As for how to fix it, well...
50 million deportations would fix almost all of it. I suggest we start there, and then see about fixing the rest of it.
50 million deportations would almost solve the unemployment crisis, the welfare bubble, the housing market, and the crime problem almost overnight. Literally all the problems that we are experiencing since 2014 would be just about erased, just by kicking out a bunch of unproductive leeches.
I'm in Canada, it's insane how much being poor is incentivised.
But yes, every political issue is downstream from toxic migration.
Beyond that, eliminate income based supports; everyone gets it or no one does. Even living off of the poor tax cattle as I do, I can easily see that paying for services you can't access is retarded.
Then income tax or sales tax: pick one. I prefer sales because it disincentivises consooming.
Reminds me of the UK. Apparently the tax brackets there disincentivize people to make between 99k and ~140k where you pay more in taxes. Its archaic and stupid.
I used to work for a company that offered bonus work paid by the job (as opposed to hourly) to the employees who showed up and worked every day. One guy I know used to turn them down (and they'd usually pay out 2-3x the rate of a normal day for half the time) because his paycheck would be smaller with the increased income.
Ultimately, it would even out at the end of the year but, in the meantime, the payroll deductions jumped so high that it made it hard for him to pay bills.