http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/04/10/pol-broadbent-poll.htmlCanadians are willing to pay more taxes to help close the growing income gap and want corporations to pay higher tax rates too, according to a new poll released Tuesday.
The survey of 2,000 Canadians, commissioned by the left-leaning Broadbent Institute, found that 23 per cent are "very willing" and 41 per cent are "somewhat willing" to pay slightly more tax in order to protect social programs such as health care, post-secondary education and pensions.
The Broadbent Institute, named after the NDP's former leader Ed Broadbent, argues that protecting social programs would help reduce income inequality.
Liberal and NDP voters are the most supportive of this proposal, the results showed, but 58 per cent of Conservative voters are also in favour of it.
"This attitude toward paying slightly higher taxes is reflected equally in high income and middle income Canadian households. It's only their governments who are offside," says the report, the first from the newly established think tank.
I find this interesting because most Americans are
also willing to pay more taxes to reduce inequality. However, our politicians have been able to manipulate many of them to vote against their own interests by using loaded rhetoric or by going after social issues instead of economic ones. Is that the same for Canada?
