Meanwhile here in canada they're proposing the opposite. One of the premiers (our version of governors) out in alberta proposed a universal tax rate of 20% on everything. Right now the average tax rate across canada is about 14%, so it'd be about a 50% increase across the board. The person who proposed it got a lot of flak for it, but slowly over time other parties have gotten on board that idea.
Meanwhile here in canada they're proposing the opposite. One of the premiers (our version of governors) out in alberta proposed a universal tax rate of 20% on everything. Right now the average tax rate across canada is about 14%, so it'd be about a 50% increase across the board. The person who proposed it got a lot of flak for it, but slowly over time other parties have gotten on board that idea.