Taxation and the middle class

[Rainrider22]

Here's another novel idea, not adding and increasing taxes on society. This is a discussion for a completely different forum I know, but whenever I hear the answer to a MAJOR global crisis is just to tax - and hurt - the middle class even more (segment which pays the biggest proportion of their money in tax as it stands), I shake my head. We can do better than that.

Here's another novel idea, let's not be afraid of raising taxes instead of being in a race for the bottom where we're constant cutting useful and necessary services. Maybe then us and almost every other (sub)urban area in North America wouldn't be in the infrastructure upkeep crisis  that we are, and would have better transit, public housing, and so on.

Sorry,  What I pay in income tax, then after tax is more than enough.  I agree, making a new tax in the name of some planet saving effort is ridiculous.