Canada

they tax the living shit out of businesses

Yeah. It's how we spend on keeping Canadians healthy and happy like every other happy country does. Keep up.

And TEN IS LESS THAN THIRTY like it was in the Good Old days we seemed to survive before, in those years when we built things like bridges and railways (those are the rotting, unmaintained things we non-helicopter-owning wage-slaves use) like Sweden and Denmark do to this day.

increase in government spending

TAX AND SPEND. Keep up. It's a whole thing.

quite profitable just on the other side of the border

Unless you mean on Miquelon or Greenland, you must be talking about the border to that user-pays, fuck-the-plebes, birth-slavery, medical-bankruptcy hell to our south.

Having lived there, I fervently hope you aren't holding that nearly-fascist mess as a goal. Alberta is cruel enough for us; let's not go full American.

Taxes don't tend to affect you when you make less than the tax cutoff.

But not having the social services those taxes used to fund suddenly means you don't get to eat dinner tomorrow, or you can't go to a family doctor because there aren't any available.

People like to complain about taxes, but taxes never made someone destitute.

when taxes have increased dramatically since then too

No they haven't:

https://policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/have-taxes-changed-all-much-over-past-half-century

In 1961, families paid 33.5% of their income on taxes, but by 1969 they were paying 39% and in 1974 they paid 43.4% of their income. So, if you compare the 2009 effective family tax rate to 1961, you will find a 25% increase, but you will only report a 7% increase since 1969 and an actual decrease since 1974.

(Note this analysis is circa 2010, but things haven't changed substantially since then aside from the post COVID inflation spike that's still subsiding).

But enjoy the alternate reality brought to you by your "friends" at the Fraser Institute™️.