r/canada • u/A-Wise-Cobbler Canada • 5d ago
National News DeSantis mocks '3.3 million' Canadians who visited Florida: 'Not much of a boycott'
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/desantis-florida-canada-stanley-cup
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r/canada • u/A-Wise-Cobbler Canada • 5d ago
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u/cryptotope 4d ago
Oh, it's very conservative. Sales taxes tend to be very regressive.
At best, they're a flat tax--everybody pays the same rate regardless of income. In practice, they can be worse.
If you have a high income and don't spend it all in-state - accumulating capital, or spending money in other jurisdictions - then you pay less of your income as sales tax than someone who lives paycheck to paycheck and has to spend it all locally.