Dear Editor:
The Fraser Institute reported that in 2024 the average Canadian family spent 42.3% of their income on taxes! A family earning $114,289 paid about $48,306 to federal, provincial and municipal governments. Housing, food and clothing took 35.5% of our income.
This means we spend more on taxes than to cover our own basic needs.
In comparison, in 1961 we spent 33.5% on taxes and 56.5% on shelter, food and clothing.
You can thank your politicians for squandering our tax money frivolously, giving themselves big fat raises and donating money to other countries instead of helping our own poor. Where does it end?
Steve Di Pisa,
Centre Wellington