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Should the government raise taxes on the rich?

Should Canada raise taxes on the rich?

Australia currently has a progressive tax system whereby high income earners pay a higher percentage of tax than low income tax. A more progressive income tax system has been proposed as a tool towards reducing wealth inequality.

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66%
Yes
34%
No
61%
Yes
27%
No
5%
Lower the income tax rate and remove all existing tax loopholes for large corporations
4%
No, but lower taxes for the poor
0%
Yes, and raise taxes on all income brackets
2%
No, keep the current tax structure
1%
Reform to a flat tax

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 @9VDZDY9from Alberta  answered…4mos4MO

there shouldnt be a tax on your paycheck. we pay tax on everything we purchase so by taxing the paycheck then taxing what we pay after we get our check we pay more in taxes then we receive .

 @9ZCXM5Yfrom Alberta  answered…2mos2MO

Lower income tax on the middle and lower class raise income tax on people who make more than a million and raise income tax on billion and million dollar corporations, abolish all tax loopholes for the rich and corporations.

 @9ZXF48Xfrom Ontario  answered…2mos2MO

No, Canada should not raise taxes on the rich because they worked hard to get that money and to be wealthy.

 @9F4F8G8from Alberta  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, and remove any possible loopholes that are currently being used or could be used by large corporations

 @9CBKZDDfrom Ontario  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, especially on the highest tax brackets

 @8VSSTYWfrom Alberta  answered…3yrs3Y

Keep the current tax structure the same but learn how to spend better!

 @B29NNVQfrom Ontario  answered…2wks2W

We should marginally reduce income tax and reform government spending. Alberta (Canada's lowest tax region) is taxed more than California (America's highest taxed region). Lower taxes invite more investment in the country and the companies in it. But the above is highly dependent on government spending being fixed and adding a limit to our spending (Similar to the US debt ceiling)

 @B299KXZfrom Ontario  answered…2wks2W

The "rich" needs to be better defined. Making $250,000 before taxes per year does not mean you're rich anymore, it means you live comfortably. I'd argue you'd need to make north of $500,000 per year before taxes to be considered "rich"

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…5mos5MO

War crime tourists pay $3,000 to see Ukraine’s horror

War Tours, pays a wage to its tour guides – who are refugees themselves – and regularly donates funds to the war effort. But some of his competitors appear to be raking in the cash: one week-long “war tour” package reportedly offered to tourists comes with a £3,000 price tag. Clients are from the US, Britain or “small European countries”, he says, and interest in tours has risen this summer. “I think they deserve to see what’s happening here because their governments support Ukraine, and they pay for that with their taxes,” he says, adding “people have a right to know how their money is spent.” It would seem that the Ukrainian government is also keen to attract visitors. In March, the country announced a campaign to attract tourists, saying it had the infrastructure and hotels to welcome foreign travellers, albeit when the war was over. “Any money that people will spend in Ukraine will help the economy to recover,” said tourism boss Mariana Oleskiv. More than 70,000 people visited the disaster-ravaged area in 2021, with numbers peaking at almost 125,000 in 2019, three years before the war broke out.“People are interested in seeing Bucha because it’s evidence of Russian aggression in their own eyes, rather than just through the media,” he explains. But “they also wanted to see destroyed Russian vehicles, and the different kinds of drones used by both sides, as well as the famous exhibitions in Kyiv”.

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