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Around The League - 2024-25 Regular Season

TheCountofMonteCristo said:
you constantly talk of punishing taxation including your fellow working class plumbers etc for gasp, driving a pick up truck, nothing to do with "little less greedy"
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If the plumber in question needs a pickup for his job I have no issue with it. But if he's rolling coal an F-350 dualie just to compensate for the personal mediocrity between his legs then yes, he should be heavily taxed.
 
lecoqsportif said:
750K US which is 1.041M CAN.

The average income of the top 1% in Canada is 580K, so he earns almost double. I figure he can scrape by from pay check to pay check.
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Most US locales have significantly cheaper housing than Mtl does presently, especially many of the southern US markets - cost of living in Canada is significantly higher even when adjusted for foreign exchange.

Oh yeah, I don’t expect Pezzetta to have a 10-12 yr NHL career, so $750K for a few years in his early 20s won’t carry him for the next 60yrs of his life, since he’s unlikely to start working as a neurosurgeon once his playing days are over…
 
Sal_Butera said:
Most US locales have significantly cheaper housing than Mtl does presently, especially many of the southern US markets - cost of living in Canada is significantly higher even when adjusted for foreign exchange.

Oh yeah, I don’t expect Pezzetta to have a 10-12 yr NHL career, so $750K for a few years in his early 20s won’t carry him for the next 60yrs of his life, since he’s unlikely to start working as a neurosurgeon once his playing days are over…
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He’s making 20X the individual average earnings in Canada, and for at least for two years. If he can’t manage to get an incredible head start in life compared to his age peers, I don’t know what to say. Most people his age are trying to lose student debt or scraping together a minimum down payment on house that take 20+ years to pay off.

He’s very, very fortunate.
 
I applaud Pezzetta for just saying what most athletes are privately thinking, i.e, forking over hundreds of thousands and in the case of someone like Suzuki, millions of dollars to the government must be incredibly frustrating. Especially when at least 25% of government spending is waste.
 
Nothing wrong with what he said. First, he was answering a question. Second he acknowledged that it was still a lot of money. But he’s got what, a 3-5 years NHL career? It’s a decent head start but it’s not like he’s set for life.
 
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