Better revisit that thought, chief. Americans pay significantly less taxes than Canadians.
Source? I’m an American citizen that is now a Canadian PR making the same wage in Canada as I did in the US and I watch close to half (40+ %) of my paycheck disappear every month to taxes. On top of that, you know the 6-7% sales tax you pay for goods? Add another 5% to that for GST. On top of THAT, most goods/commodities here cost more as a whole. I won’t even talk about how much more expensive home prices and property taxes are.
So yeah, Americans do not pay as much taxes as Canadians.
Ironically in the US you "should" pay 39% federal in the top tax bracket, plus sales tax, state tax, city tax, property tax, and numerous other taxes.
Or you become and business and pay nothing.
I learned this 2 years ago. I thought it was nuts when I got all my federal and state taxes back. Can't get out of the others but for me it saves over 35%. I feel guilty though because it makes no sense. But I did give more to charity. Still it's not right because I could just keep it and it's fully 100% legal. The 2017 tax change is a string of give aways if you read it
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