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Originally Posted by Steve Bozek
I found it interesting that the Federal tax rate is higher in the USA than Canada. The big difference is provincial vs state taxes, but are sales taxes included in the calculations?
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The American state governments (even for California) are considerably smaller in terms of revenue/capita than Canadian provincial governments. For example the BC government has a budget of ~C$80B while next-door Washington State is only ~US$70B despite 2 million more residents than BC.