Here is something just as simple. The top ten per cent of income earners in Canada, you know the ones everyone seems to be talking about, earn 35% of the income in Canada, but pay 54 % of all federal and provincially taxes collected. Yet you won't have to search far on these boards to find someone arguing that they have to pay their fair share.There are about 16 million people who file tax returns in this country and and far less then a million are picking up over half of the share of all taxes collected. People have a funny notion of what fair is. By the way the wealthy in the States pick up 55% of all taxes paid. People babble on about income inequality, but conveniently turn a blind eye to tax inequality.