OK, I will put this right out there. I am Canadian. Now Canada is very left wing, but no party that has ever, in the last 30 years, promised to increase taxes, ever been elected. They may very well lie to get elected and THEN raise taxes but would never run on it. How does a party in the US run on tax hikes and get elected?
Just curious...do they have "trust funds" in Canada? There are many,*many* Baby Boomers living within 40 miles of I-95 and I-5 (IOW,the east and West Coasts) who have them.It means that they're living off of Mommy's and Daddy's legacy.Add to that the huge number of welfare parasites living in those same places and you have "yes,absolutely raise taxes".
Just as an aside...in Massachusetts there's a line on the state income tax return that gives a taxpayer the option to pay his taxes at a rate *higher* than that required by state law.IOW,you're able to "donate" money to the state.
In a state of about 6 million,a state that's elected the likes of Teddy,John Kerry and Princess Liawatha,only about 200 returns a year have that box checked.
Phonies! I assume you have them Up North as well.
They promise to raise taxes only on “the rich” and put all the money into entitlement programs to go to “the poor.”
Thing is, the threshold for “rich” is surprisingly low. It works out that most folks that work pay taxes and watch the benefits go to an increasingly larger class of beneficiaries.