Xequecal wrote:
The US pays 24-26% of its GDP in taxes, depending on which source you look at, (
Heritage Foundation,
OECD) while Canada is at 31-33%.
I'd explain why that measure is rather useless (as is anything using GDP as a datapoint), but there's no real point here.
I probably should clarify that unless you're making under $10,000 a year (which is less than half of minimum wage on a full time job), you're paying your share of taxes in Canada. There are very few "free rides." So it's possible the overall tax rate is higher, despite the middle and upper class paying less overall, because almost our entire population pays taxes, unlike America, where claims are frequently made that nearly half the population pays nothing at all.