> The lowest tax rate in the US/CA is Alberta and the highest is Quebec > However, saying Canadians on the whole are "overtaxed" I was talking about the total

> The lowest tax rate in the US/CA is Alberta and the highest is Quebec > However, saying Canadians on the whole are "overtaxed" I was talking about the total amount of money that engineers take home. So just replace the word "overtaxed" with underpaid, and the argument holds. Engineers in america get way way more take home money, regardless of any tax rates. > Folks don't move to the US to evade taxes Ok, they do it to get the high salary. Or a lot of them do. > but still attracts the world's best talent Yes. Because engineers get paid way more money than trash collectors. So great, canada should go ahead and pay their engineers the same as trash collections (through a method that will certainly result in them having to spend a bunch of money to do it), and we in the USA can poach a lot of those engineers. Once again, feel free to show the example of a real country that is spending an equal amount of money on their trash collectors, and their engineers, and I point out how that country is likely having a lot of its engineers leave.