Is this an individual thing or a generational thing?

busdriver11
Fri, 06 Jan 2017 20:10:38 +0000

I love paying taxes because I like having services - even services that I don’t benefit from at all,

I don’t see paying high taxes as regressive. I see it as the price one pays for living in a civilized country.

I did not say that high taxes are regressive, but that VAT taxes are highly regressive, meaning that they disproportionately tax a greater portion of poorer people’s income than the wealthy. That is the system that is in place in the EU and Canada.

Perhaps you love paying taxes because you do not pay high taxes? Yet since you get the benefits of your husband being a government worker, which are generally very good…you get many of the benefits that other people pay for, without paying a high tax rate. So it sounds like a great deal for you, however not so good for people paying a large portion of their salary in taxes (whether high, middle or low income), who do not get those same benefits.