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Doctors say tax us! Ontario is worth it
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Apr 02 2012
Almost all the economic gains of the past three decades have gone to Canada’s top 1 per cent but our taxes haven’t gone up accordingly. Controlled for inflation, during the last 30 years, the highest earning fifth of Canadians increased their pay by 40 per cent while the earnings of the lowest fifth fell by 11 per cent… As physicians, we see the impact of this growing inequality on our patients and communities. Diabetes rates are skyrocketing in poor neighbourhoods. And economic inequality is bad for everyone. For example, less equal societies have much higher rates of violence…. After several years of discussion, five of us launched Doctors for Fair Taxation < http://doctorsforfairtaxation.ca/ >.
Tags: ideology, standard of living, tax
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