Eighteen percent is daylight robbery for people barely keeping their heads above water—low earners shouldn’t be bleeding more than a fifth of what they scrape together. The least we can do is drop it down to five percent so they keep more of their own hard-earned scraps instead of handing it over to bureaucrats who’ll just waste it.
The numbers behind the demand
Previous
18%
Tax rate when demanded
Right now
5%
Current tax rate
— delivered
What voters want
≤ 5%
Cut the rate to no higher than 5%
🎉 Delivered on April 18, 2020 via the budget that passed.
Next election on 31 January 2025 (in 1 month).
Pledges (2)
Democrats (D)
pledged April 3, 2020
Delivered
“Close tax loopholes for billionaires rather than raise them and lower income taxes to the 7.5% for earners under 100k/yearly and 10% for earners above 100k/yearly.”
Liberal
pledged April 6, 2020
Delivered
“I pledge to fulfill this demand very soon”