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Originally Posted by Hecate
Canadians have never been more ripped off by their governments and the public servants…. And you think people are selfish for being sick of paying over half their incomes in taxes. Money that’s wasted frivolously by corrupt inept politicians. You must have a government job.
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Your skull must be thicker than lead. In 2020, Canadians:
- Earned a total of $1.59 Trillion in income (including government transfers).
- Paid $286.7 Billion in federal taxes, which represents 18% of income earned;
- Paid $268.5 Billion in provincial taxes, which represents 16.9% of income earned;
- Paid $66.9 Billion in local government/municipal taxes, which represents 4.2% of income earned.
So in total in 2020, Canadians paid roughly 39% of all income earned to all 3 levels of government, which is quite different than "over half". Also, not every household pays 50% income tax - you'd have to be an illiterate idiot living under a rock to think that. You'd have to earn a very high income in Canada in order to pay effectively half of it back to the government.
And yeah, maybe 39% of all income going towards governments sounds expensive, but in exchange for that 39% you benefit from and get access to: national and local road infrastructure, subsidized transit systems, healthcare and hospitals, public K-12 education and subsidized post-secondary education, military, police, fire protection, environmental regulations and protections, local and national parks, community centres, food safety and regulations, subsidized agricultural products, public statistics and data, unemployment and maternity leave benefits, other various social safety nets, and many other services I'm probably forgetting to list.
Obviously I don't expect someone with such a smooth brain to be able to do elementary math, but once you grow up I'd encourage you open up Excel and try to price out what all these services would cost you if you had to procure them for yourself with no outside help from the big bad government.
Given the content of your posts, I'd wager you make little more than minimum wage anyways, which indicates you probably receive more income from the government than you pay in taxes. The aforementioned services you already receive from the terrible and corrupt governments in Canada would likely cost you tens of thousands of dollars to replace every year if you had to procure privately (good luck building your own private road network!), which I doubt your already small personal budget could sustain.
It would be nice if you could improve the content of your posts, or at the very least, fact-check before spewing nonsense.