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Wed Apr 2, 2025, 11:49 PM Wednesday

Canada has a "sales tax" on almost every good and services, if [View all]

that fact can re-assure some consumers in the US, except that government services like Universal Healthcare get partially funded by these sales taxes, and that the lower-income taxpayers get "refunds" four times a year from the governments (both Federal and Provincial, where applicable), while tariffs paid by US consumers will affect the lower-income earners more than they will the well offs, and the revenues from these "unjust" across-the-board sales taxes will be used to pay for more tax cuts to the 1-percenters (no refunds to the poorest taxpayers every three months).

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