Doesn't really affect me, and my main reaction has always been "well, it used to be 75%, so in the grand scheme of things we're still ahead". Although I wouldn't be surprised if 75% is the end goal.
I think the bigger question is more about whether it makes policy sense, and whether the people who are in that upper middle class "professional" sort of income bracket are the people it makes sense to target with new tax increases. Trudeau's justification is, explicitly, that "the rich are becoming richer, they need to pay more". Someone making $300,000 in employment income a year is wealthy, certainly compared to the average Canadian. But they're not the sources or beneficiaries of growing income inequality - that would be the people who own media conglomerates and grocery store chains, not a cabin in Invermere.
It just seems like a very narrow and misguided way to wage class warfare - pit the school teachers against their doctors and plumbers, I guess.
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