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I've said it before and I'll say it again;
The governments (at all levels) introduce all these different taxes to try and make taxation fair across the entire population.
The biggest issue with that approach is that government is inefficient. So each tax they introduce costs millions to implement. I would actually be in favor of consolidating some forms of these taxes and just paying slightly more on income tax.
Atleast then ideally the government can shed some fucking public sector workers. Our public sector has become way too big of a inefficient drain on our economy, this is reflected when you look at our productivity numbers. Canada is burdened with Taxes to continue feeding an absolutely eye watering amount of public workers who do nothing to further productivity or add to our GDP.
Adding CRA workers to address the problem with retrieving all the benefits the government just stupidly paid out with zero consideration driving us into this inflationary crisis, is literally furthering the problem. Unless that worker is Cities adding gardeners, janitors, office administrators, etc, at a shocking pace. All of these are problems. Not only does it detract productive workers from our employment pool, but each one creates an expense for which we need to continue adding taxes.
Imagine if you could strip the voting power away from anyone who works in the public sector, then see how much these political platforms change. The issue is that 25% of people in canada are public sector, so if anyone runs on the platform of cutting public workers, they are alienating an absolutely massive voter base.
Just for reference the US public workers are like 14.1%. Now health care and education are a big reason we have always been higher in Public workforce (and i'm certainly not advocating for cuts to teachers, or Doctors/Nurses), but the US also has a way bigger military workforce.
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