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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Taxes are really pretty simple, you dont want to levy so much they make life difficult for businesses and people to get on at the same time you have to offer a decent modern infrastructure that is just as important for economic growth, there are plenty of countries that have no taxes, Somalia, the Sudan, oddly they arent a hotbed of economic growth
Finding the balance is always the hard part, on the left we tend to discount the effect of taxes and just assume the economy will continue on no matter how much money is taxed and spent, conversely on the right they constantly downplay the importance of a well run infrastructure and also massively over state the benefits of low taxes
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It isn't that simple.
In theory, yes but in reality we have a government who spends billions on basically nothing, and Canadians for some reason go along with it.
Why shouldn't we demand better services? Its our money.
But all we do instead is buy into the lie that in order to have better social services like the Nordic countries do, we have to PAY MORE TAXES.
Except our health care system is not run the same way, so why do we think we can just pay more taxes and boom, we have the same system?