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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The countries with high standards of living and more socialist societies than Canada have not achieved this by taxing corporations at a higher rate than we do. Northern Europe has lower corporate tax rates than North America.
They fund their robust public services with higher income taxes at all income levels than we impose, and with much higher sales tax.
So the barrier to Alberta and Canada becoming more socialist isn’t that we cater too much to corporate interests. It’s that the general public is unwilling to be taxed at the rates of their counterparts in Denmark, the Netherlands, etc.
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These countries have very high progressive tax rates. I think that would pass a referendum. The problem is the parties know where their bread is buttered.