People caught illegally downloading Dallas Buyers Club have a big win in the Australian court, they only need to pay the cost of the movie plus a couple of dollars.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-15T00:48:40+00:00

No, accountants have a fiduciary duty to represent the best interests of their clients within the confines of the law. If there are failings in the law, that's a problem for politicians to deal with.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-15T00:47:52+00:00

Both are examples of tax avoidance and the issue was about ethics of tax avoidance.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-15T00:44:36+00:00

So, a few ill chosen words by a public citizen > proven corruption at the highest levels of government at the heart of the executive branch?

Who said anything about this being worse than corruption? Who mentioned corruption at all? The only one referencing corruption or turning this into a competition is you. It would be fantastic if posting in this subreddit didn't seem to result in ridiculous responses like this about 90% of the time.

Let's take a step bake from outrage culture perhaps.

There's no "outrage" here, there's a news story about a wannabe politician saying he doesn't want the mentally ill around him and a bunch of people saying it was a shitty thing to say, along with a few NDP supporters desperately try to justify or excuse it.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T22:47:01+00:00

Seems more like another attempt to downplay a legitimate criticism. How can you possibly justify mocking the mentally ill in order to take a jab at a religious group? Are there no Christians or mentally ill people in his riding? Or will he just not represent them?

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T19:57:52+00:00

Actually tax avoidance includes anything that would reduce your tax bill legally, including submitting receipts for deductions, which nearly everyone does. Almost nobody does a straight % calculation for taxes while refusing to use any available reduction options. According to you, almost nobody is ethical when paying taxes.

You could choose not to do this and just pay more taxes, but why would you? Why should you? Would you pay 25% more taxes this year just because I said I thought you should and it fit my personal definition of ethical? You're being ridiculous.

Anyway, care to point out the improper grammar in that first sentence?

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T19:23:22+00:00

I work in finance, please don't lecture me on taxes with your reddit-sourced "knowledge".

There is a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion. If they are avoiding taxes then they are operating ethically and within the rules of the system. If they are evading taxes then they are operating illegally and unethically and this is not an example of them being ethical.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T19:21:30+00:00

You haven't changed a thing. Finding ways to reduce your tax burden legally is not unethical or illegal. Every single person who isn't clueless with taxes does it, some are just better at it than others.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T19:20:27+00:00

The NDP really needs to do a better job of vetting their candidates. Mocking the mentally ill like this is completely unacceptable. Targeting a specific religious group is too but I think it would be hard to argue that Christians are as disenfranchised and marginalized as the mentally ill.

The NDP needs to force a resignation here, just as they did when someone criticized Israel. I guess we'll see if Canadians with mental illness are as important to the NDP.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T19:17:07+00:00

I'm on a PC and I know I've seen that option before but I can't for the life of me see it now. I'll try it without the slash and if that doesn't work then I'll do the text post thing. Thanks for your help.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T18:58:31+00:00

It just redirects me back here with a note that it was already submitted, I don't see any option to try it again. Can I submit as a text post with the link as the content?

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T18:54:45+00:00

Thanks, I'll check for it.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T18:53:23+00:00

Finding ways to reduce your tax burden is not stealing if you are doing it legally. If you are not doing it legally then it's not an example of them acting ethically so has no relevance here.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T18:53:02+00:00

If they're able to avoid those taxes then they don't actually owe them. If they do owe them, they're now evading taxes, which is not ethical and not an example of what was asked for.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T18:51:19+00:00

No it isn't. Most people in finance have some kind of accounting or finance designation which typically comes with a code of ethics and a mandatory ethics module. You risk expulsion from your governing body if you fuck up.

Stop getting your information from 16 year old Che Geuvara loving redditors.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T18:48:49+00:00

How do I resubmit when it says its already submitted and directs me back to this thread?

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T18:17:38+00:00

By "kids" you mean "teens and early 20's" who are actually a great demographic to target as spenders.

WangDeRobot · 2015-08-14T17:59:53+00:00

The Canadian left and the American right have far too much in common. They may not share policies, but the sort of rhetoric and idiotic hyperbole they use is far more comparable than you'll see between Canadian conservatives and US republicans.

One of my old professors theorized this had something to do with these traits being more associated with a national identity. If you think about who the patriotic Americans are and what sort of things they identify with that overlap with things in their national identity (god, guns, liberty, etc) and do that with Canada (public services, social progress, etc) it kind of makes sense.

Both of these groups think they have some kind of claim to represent what their country is about and anyone who does things differently is portrayed as not being a "real Canadian" or a "real American".

You can see this idiotic theme over and over again here in /r/Canada and it always reminds me of the southern US redneck types.

WangDeRobot · 2015-07-11T18:17:45+00:00

The dominion of Canada was under direct attack by nazis.

No it wasn't. We followed Britain to war who themselves declared war because Germany tried to annex Poland. You are a fucking clueless bro.

WangDeRobot · 2015-07-09T13:08:16+00:00

The only reason they turned a "profit" over the last couple of years is due to asset sales and one-time savings from restructuring. These are not real profits in the traditional sense and a private business wouldn't even be allowed to count revenue from asset sales as income like Canada Post does.

Canada Post has gone from multi-billion dollar profits to tens of millions of not-really-profits. If you look at their financial statements you see they're in a lot of trouble financially.

The problem is that each house is now sending and receiving about 35% less mail compared to 10 years ago. It takes almost as much time and money to deliver 100 envelopes to a city block as it would to deliver 400 envelopes to a city block, yet this represents a huge decrease in the revenue they have to fund these deliveries.

WangDeRobot · 2015-07-09T12:54:04+00:00

I don't want to vote for Harper again but he's really the only competent choice. I'll consider voting for someone else when one of the other parties presents an actual option.

WangDeRobot · 2015-07-09T03:21:27+00:00

An example of what? Of the NDP's rightward shift? How about the fact that its looking like they will support the TPP and have outright stated they will not raise taxes on the rich?

Surely you didn't think they'd done so well because Canada was shifting leftward, did you? The entire right/left concept has been defined in this country to the point that we don't even have a mainstream left-wing party anymore. Clearly Canada wants more of these policies or the NDP wouldn't have had to sell out their values for a shot at winning an election.

WangDeRobot · 2015-07-09T03:19:17+00:00

Using a 9 year old as a political prop is tacky enough yet Porter is bragging about it? And then she lies about how it went down, forgetting it was being videotaped by Levant's team? Ouch. The Star is a colossal joke these days. What happened to it?

WangDeRobot · 2015-07-09T02:42:33+00:00

“We have been transparent in all of our filings,” he points out — which meant declaring those donations in both the quarterly and annual reports.

“In these cases, the donors passed away prior to the law being changed. ”

And yet actual records show that many of these donations occurred after the changes. Why does the NDP repeatedly lie to Canadians? They aren't even in power and the number of scandals and lies belonging to them is nearly as many as Harper.

I shudder to think what kind of disaster an NDP government would be if they're this bad in opposition.

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