Canadians are paying first-world taxes for increasingly second-rate public services. The money is coming in. The services are not being delivered. The question is where the gap went.
Getting promoted should feel like a win. In Ontario, past a certain income level, it barely registers in your take-home pay while your workload doubles. That math has consequences the political class refuses to name.
Ontario taxes a capital gain at 26.76 percent, less than California. The damage was never the rate. It was eleven months in which nobody could say what the rate would be. A reversed tax increase is not a costless one.