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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Well, I agree this is good for my favorite hockey team. I kind of find it a bit odd that Canadian millionaire get to keep more of their salary in Canada, but middle class families with a couple kids and a mortgage pay far less in the US.
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Your generalization about the middle class having an easier go of it in the US was true at one time but it's a lot more complicated today. You might do better in a place like TX or OK with low cost of living and low taxes (and crappy services and infrastructure and schools, high crime rates etc.). But in CA or NY or the kinds of places with a more Canadian-style quality of living, life for the middle class is generally harder than in Canada, certainly AB. The Great Recession hit a hell of a lot harder in the USA and in states worth raising a family in the tax rate is high and the cost of health care is staggering. At least that's my view.