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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Yeah, Canada has slightly higher taxes on the rich while Norway has slightly lower taxes on lower income brackets.
But, overall, they both follow an extremely similar model, so I’m not really sure where the fantasy that what Canada is doing hasn’t been done anywhere else successfully comes from. Pointing at progressive tax rates and saying “there’s the problem” seems fairly ignorant when Canada’s issues are far more nuanced than that, but we’d probably benefit from higher taxes across the board.
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I don’t think people are pointing at progressive taxes being the issue. I certainly am not. The issue is we are under taxed relative to the level of service we expect.
The solution to that under taxation a broad based tax increases rather than increasing the progressiveness of the system. Increasing the GST to say 10% would also be a good idea.