When health care gets brought up, I often hear "it's not free health care, they pay for it with their taxes!" which is true, but also a little disingenuous. After all, as an American you pay tax too. People always seem to think that Canadians pay far higher taxes than Americans do, but I realized that for the most part, it looks like Americans making under $200,000 in the US are taxed more than Canadians at the same income level? And we don't need to pay for additional health insurance on top of that (though we don't have universal dental or pharmacare for some reason which we gotta fix).
So try this.
I chose BC for this because that's where I live. I tried a bunch of different cities in the US, and aside from states without income tax it was hard to land on one where I'd pay less. Less than 4% of Americans make over $200,000 a year.
So try this.
- Check what you'd pay in income tax in your city here (use the green line for total income tax, not the big blue text): https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes
- Then see how much you'd pay in income tax in British Columbia, Canada: https://simpletax.ca/calculator
I chose BC for this because that's where I live. I tried a bunch of different cities in the US, and aside from states without income tax it was hard to land on one where I'd pay less. Less than 4% of Americans make over $200,000 a year.
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