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Originally Posted by Cactus Jack
Yes but the tax base is the same. 10X the population can roughly be equated to 10X the tax population unless there is some kind of anomally whereby these 270 million would either be all unemployed or high income earners. The fact is Canada has a good economy, lots of resources and 33 million people.
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10x more people in an Alberta economy isn't the same as 10x more people in Alabama. Or Georgia.
We are a high earning province, they are a low-earning state. Tax revenues in each place would be different. And you can make that claim here in Canada too.
Sure, you can adjust the tax numbers to try and accommodate them. But in the end, providing health care for 10x more people would cost a lot more money than can be gained by the taxes gained from having a 10x bigger population base.