It's a rare article in this paper that doesn't cheer the soak-the-rich mantra.  Paying 54% tax on earnings is certainly enough to change people's behaviours in ways that are negative to our national interests.  Absolutely it is an inducement to step off the gas at work or leave the country entirely.  When you take the injury of such a high tax rate an then add it to the insults coming from Trudeau and his hench-people, as they refer to it as 'tax-fairness' for example, it's just too much to bear.