The Cure for Tax Rage: Take a trip to Brazil

By Chris Arsenault
Thursday February 22nd, 2007
Here (New Brunswick)

It’s a common perception south of the border that we Canadians are taxed to death by a pseudo-socialist nanny state.

In the lousy 1992 Tom Selleck movie, Mr. Baseball, the main character is terrified of being moved to Canada due to higher taxes and instead ends up being shipped off to Japan.

And, as call-centre workers, baristas, kitchen staff and office employees trudge off in search of old T4 forms from jobs quit months ago, the idea of paying taxes, especially higher taxes than Americans, may seem unnerving.

Add a well-funded choir of voices like the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and the Fraser Institute screaming about ‘tax rage’ and one could easily assume that Canadians are taxed to death.

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