You need to stop looking at it in terms of absolute dollars paid. And look at it terms of how much you have left after paying for a comfortable level of living, and taxes.

Most people don’t cross the threshold of comfortable, and if they do, they have virtually nothing left for retirement or savings.

A thousand dollars to you isn’t the same as a thousand dollars to someone else.

That’s where a lot of people will claim you aren’t paying your fair share.

Also, blaming the state of the province on one part or one man is really missing a lot of historical context.

Decades of avoiding taxes has led the atrophy in our health care system. Then covid happened. Globally. We weathered it quite well because of the NDP party. It still took its toll. A lof of our aging staff in the health care sector either retired early or burned out due to the undue stress. I think a lot of people are blind to how over stressed the system was during that time.

It’s a delusional pipe dream to think we can fix any of that without taxes on those who can afford it.