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Should Canada implement automatic tax filing? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago by sbv@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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CRA is running a public consultation on automatic tax filing. You can fill it out here.

Here's the verbiage about the project

It's unbelievable that Canada makes people with trivial tax needs jump through so many hoops. If someone is elderly and poor, they need to file taxes to receive their full benefits. That's a huge barrier to many people.

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[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel you. It’s hard to not.

But at the same time, we have to try understanding people and empathising with them if we want to bring people back together.

The world has been intentionally divided to make us easier to control. The only way to counter that is to reunite, you know?

[–] StoneyPicton@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I understand people all too well. My belief is everyone is justified in their approach to life by either genetics or experience and should be free to express and act on these within the confines of the law. But I also believe that to disguise our opposition to some beliefs and to not call out something as "stupid", which is a very general term that can be ascribed to a variety of demographics, is wrong. I believe in peoples right to free speech, but question the freedom to lie (what is a lie?). I admire and support the efforts to empathize with all people but I also recognize that if those efforts leads to the loss of the battle for freedom and equality then it must be treated as a secondary consideration.

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

If you are going to insult peoples beliefs, how do you see people reacting to that?

Will they suddenly realise their error, or will the wall up, get defensive and dig in?

So what are you trying to achieve?