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Originally Posted by raymor
Your taxes are 47% higher than the average G7 country. Your total tax burden is
about 75%, meaning that for every dollar you earn, the government takes 75 cents
of it via one tax or another. So let's see, assume you make $100,000. You then
pay $75,000 of that to the government.
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I'd like to know where you got that 75% figure...
"In 2008, the average Canadian family paid total taxes equaling 43.9 per cent of its income... The Canadian Consumer Tax Index calculates the total tax bill of the typical Canadian family by adding up the various taxes that the family pays to federal, provincial, and local governments. These include direct taxes such as income taxes, sales taxes, Employment Insurance and Canadian Pension Plan contributions, as well as ?hidden? taxes such as import duties, excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol, amusement taxes, and gas taxes."
Also, lets say you had a child born with an illness you would quickly learn that "pretty good health insurance" is sometimes far from enough...