Asking rich people to contribute 2% more? Oh, the humanity! How will they ever survive this insult? Surely, society will collapse under the economic strain.
BC liberals be like.
190k is doing all right these days if someone has a family. Single? Ya probably pretty well off, but I wouldn’t call it “rich” still. I imagine a rich person with a giant house on land with all the comforts they could want.
Well if you’re making 190k and you don’t have at least a mortgage on a big house on land and a great many creature comforts you fumbled somewhere
Kids. Probably several. Lol.
I don’t think there are too many family doctors making over a million a year.
Even family doctors struggle to pay for housing in the Victoria area.
Anyone struggling to afford housing while making $190,000 (let alone more) is either grossly incompetent with money or is confusing “struggling to pay for housing” with “not being able to afford as big or fancy a house as they’d like”. If you go with the standard 30% for housing costs vs income (which to anyone making $80,000 or less is impossible), you’re looking at $4750/month. That’s not a struggle by anyone’s definition.
Buddy have you seen the housing listings in Victoria?
Yes. I think you fundamentally misunderstand what struggle means. $4750/month is enough to rent a super nice place or a mortgage on a decent detached house (nothing fancy but just under a million). And that’s not to mention the other $5000+/month leftover after taxes.
