Fraser Institute reports tracks data since 1961, when the average Canadian family lost just a third of its income to taxes.
  • nyan ( nyan@lemmy.cafe ) English
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    2 months ago

    The article doesn’t state what it means by “average”, but given that the income figure it sees as “average” is north of $120000, I’d bet it’s looking at mean and not median. Which means their data is skewed by a few high earners and automatically worthless.

    (That’s completely aside from the fact that paying taxes isn’t losing money; it’s funding road maintenance, clean drinking water, firefighting, and all those other services everyone, even the rich, needs and uses.)

  • healthetank ( healthetank@lemmy.ca ) 
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    2 months ago

    Man what a shit take. “One of the countries with the highest housing costs:income ratios in the OECD, and they’re still only about 1/3 of their gross income including clothing AND groceries” presented as “look at how much the big bad government is ripping you off”.

    I don’t doubt there’s waste in the government and bureaucratic red tape, but I’ll take waste on that side rather than the same amount going into lining some rich fuckers pockets.

    Edit: lol skimmed past this in the first pass. Clearly it must be tax waste, and not thing like regulation of stuff like the building code, health code, additional servicing/maintenance costs with public infrastructure only installed in the 70s and later, higher living and service expectations from all branches of government, longer and longer lifespan meaning higher costs associated with old age care.

    No, no, that’d be ridiculous.