At least in my salary range, 33% income tax (state + federal) and then ~15% sales tax. So actual take home ~ 50%. For some ****ing reason Canadians seem to think this is superior; they hold "socialized medicine" up, but I was always employed in the US so I had insurancs.
That isn't what really bothers me though. The price of plane tickets is my real sore point. In Delaware, I could fly anywhere in the US (even nonstop to San Francisco or LA) for no more than $200US. It was nothing ($500-600) for my wife, son, and I to fly home (Louisiana) for 4-5 days to visit. We won $99 pricewatch tickets before for that trip in fact. From Saskatoon, it's $800CAD per ticket ($2400 total). So even though I am a professor now, my standard of living (in terms of what my disposable income would buy me) was higher when a grad student in the US. Gay gay gay.
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