(Sherbrooke) Quebec Solidaire has been criticized by its political opponents and by many columnists for promising to tax net worths of more than $1 million and large estates because it is a political “taboo,” Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois denounced. Condemned for presenting a poorly designed measure.
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“I’ve heard opponents and columnists say they disagree. It doesn’t surprise me. Quebec solidaire attacked the prohibition. There are people in Quebec who have enough money and can go a little longer,” he said at a press conference in Sherbrooke on Thursday.
As CAQ leader Francois Legault said earlier in the day, his opponents joined forces to condemn this “orange tax”. It threatens farmers and harms the transmission of businesses from one generation to another, which the Liberal Party, Alliance Avenir Quebec, Parti Québécois and the Conservative Party have blamed. Mr Nadeau-Dubois took a step back to exclude agricultural land from this calculation – the day before, his economist candidates were unaware of this privilege – but today confirms that the measure is “final”.
The spokesperson has now gone on the attack and accused them of being disconnected. “What we are seeing in the last few days is very interesting. What we will see is a large part of the political class completely disconnected from what the middle class is in 2022,” he decried.
A true middle class
The average salary in Quebec is around $55,000. To assume that people with amassed two million assets are the poor or the middle class is a disconnect from the real middle class in Quebec.
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
Mr. Nadeau-Dubois estimates that citizens with two million assets will have the means to “add a small $1,000” to their tax return to finance public services, even as they retire. He insisted that the measure would only target the wealthiest 5% of Quebecers and that the promised tax was “effective and reasonable.”
“We will never apologize, we will ask Quebec millionaires to contribute a little more,” he said. Mr. Nadeau-Dubois also pointed out. “Well, there is a difference. There’s a party where millionaires think they can do more, and that’s Quebec Solitaire,” he said. However, remember that QS is not the only party that wants to tax the rich since the Liberals of Dominic Anglade proposed raising the tax rate for incomes above $300,000.
