Maybe another potentially surprising fact: Canada’s Federal income tax is more or less identical to the US’s; and in fact the US imposes a slightly higher tax on ultra high earners than Canada. This works in Canada because Provinces levy high taxes as well, and 80% of government spending in Canada happens at the Provincial level. In other words, if Americans want to make the US more like Canada, there’s a really easy way to make the US more like Canada: the States.