You’re looking at one tax. If you look at ALL Canadian taxes, income tax, provincial taxes, sales tax, import taxes, fuel taxes, property taxes, health services taxes, business taxes Canadians actually pay about HALF of their gross income in taxes. We are f’n taxed to death in Canada.
This is an untrue statistic often trotted out by the Conservative Frasier Institute. Canadians think we’re taxed far more than we are, because public opinion has been manipulated to believe so. Average Canadian pays about one third of income to taxes - creeping up as you move up taxes brackets
Fraser Institute is a conservative Canadian org. They cheat on their taxes and don’t pay them because they’re “a charity” and think no one else should pay taxes. Of course they fudge numbers like this and find extremes.
If you do the actual math on your personal taxes, unless you are somehow extra ordinary, you’ll find overall you’re being taxed in the neighbourhood of 30%.
Meanwhile, in south Carolina, I pay bring home about 60% of my income, I can’t afford to eat well, I get absolutely zero assistance for food, medical insurance, or God Forbid basic income, and I am genuinely contemplating attempting to live in my vehicle in an abandoned parking lot near my work to save on gas money.
UBI would also be good for the economy, as it stimulates consumerism. To economists, CEOs and politicians, you have to talk about the positive effects on the economy.
I don’t get your math. Here in BC my property tax is about $1500 on a 2 bedroom condo. Maybe 1-2% of my income. With deductions my tax is about 13% since my wife doesn’t earn a huge amount but even if single it might be 20%, there is no health insurance fee as its baked into taxes. We aren’t paying PST on food. So your claim is my other 15-20% tax means I’m paying 30% tax on everything else I buy?
Assuming this was supposed to reply to my response (you’re just responding directly to the main post FYI).
Canadians actually pay about HALF of their gross income in taxes
I haven’t ever heard a number this big. Where did you get this from, and how does it compare to other countries?
I don’t disagree - we’re taxed more than the US, but that comes with things like single-payer healthcare and higher regulatory enforcement. GST, for example, isn’t something collected in the US meaning they only have the effective PST component of our sales tax, which varies widely by municipality to municipality, but is quite a bit less.
You’re looking at one tax. If you look at ALL Canadian taxes, income tax, provincial taxes, sales tax, import taxes, fuel taxes, property taxes, health services taxes, business taxes Canadians actually pay about HALF of their gross income in taxes. We are f’n taxed to death in Canada.
This is an untrue statistic often trotted out by the Conservative Frasier Institute. Canadians think we’re taxed far more than we are, because public opinion has been manipulated to believe so. Average Canadian pays about one third of income to taxes - creeping up as you move up taxes brackets
Bullshit
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/canadians-celebrate-tax-freedom-day-on-june-8-2025-infographic-breakdown.png
Id say giving 68k in taxes on an average Cdn family income of 158k is taxed to death, wouldn’t you?
Fraser Institute is a conservative Canadian org. They cheat on their taxes and don’t pay them because they’re “a charity” and think no one else should pay taxes. Of course they fudge numbers like this and find extremes.
If you do the actual math on your personal taxes, unless you are somehow extra ordinary, you’ll find overall you’re being taxed in the neighbourhood of 30%.
Meanwhile, in south Carolina, I pay bring home about 60% of my income, I can’t afford to eat well, I get absolutely zero assistance for food, medical insurance, or God Forbid basic income, and I am genuinely contemplating attempting to live in my vehicle in an abandoned parking lot near my work to save on gas money.
UBI would also be good for the economy, as it stimulates consumerism. To economists, CEOs and politicians, you have to talk about the positive effects on the economy.
Indeed, it isn’t like the money paid out for UBI just goes into a black hole. Sure, some will save it. But many will spend it.
I don’t get your math. Here in BC my property tax is about $1500 on a 2 bedroom condo. Maybe 1-2% of my income. With deductions my tax is about 13% since my wife doesn’t earn a huge amount but even if single it might be 20%, there is no health insurance fee as its baked into taxes. We aren’t paying PST on food. So your claim is my other 15-20% tax means I’m paying 30% tax on everything else I buy?
Assuming this was supposed to reply to my response (you’re just responding directly to the main post FYI).
I haven’t ever heard a number this big. Where did you get this from, and how does it compare to other countries?
I don’t disagree - we’re taxed more than the US, but that comes with things like single-payer healthcare and higher regulatory enforcement. GST, for example, isn’t something collected in the US meaning they only have the effective PST component of our sales tax, which varies widely by municipality to municipality, but is quite a bit less.