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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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Yes
53%
No
31%
Yes
43%
No
10%
Lower the income tax rate and remove all existing tax loopholes for large corporations
5%
Reform to a flat tax
0%
Yes, and raise taxes on all income brackets
5%
No, but lower taxes for the poor
1%
No, keep the current tax structure

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 @9VDZDY9from Alberta  answered…7mos7MO

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 .

 @B46PKZYfrom Ontario  answered…4wks4W

No. Lower income tax, increase sales tax on non-essentials, limit tax loopholes for large co-operations.

 @9ZCXM5Yfrom Alberta  answered…5mos5MO

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.

 @9F4F8G8from Alberta  answered…2yrs2Y

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…4yrs4Y

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

 @B4V48CVfrom Ontario  answered…4hrs4H

The definition of rich needs to be defined here. Doctors, who are desperately needed in this country, should not be taxed at over 50% on ANY income. This is just one example. $250k of annual income is not even close to the top 1% of income earners. the tax brackets should progress much more gradually up to millions of annual income.

 @B4V3T8Zfrom Nova Scotia  answered…5hrs5H

We’re taxed on everything. It’s too much, especially for the lower and middle class. I support lowering the overall tax burden and simplifying the system

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…9mos9MO

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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