Off-topic: Government healthcare proposals

Any comparison of financial matters in the USA and Canada should take into consideration the huge population difference between the two countries. In some things this may not be important, and in other things it may be. The difference would be relevant to any unusual event, good or bad, that has a small probability of occurring anywhere.

For example, it is far more likely that a rare and unusual discovery, say of a new and better medical treatment, or the success of a company that invents a new product, occurs in the USA than in Canada. On the other hand, it is also more likely that a cult of cannibalism or a newer and more and effective ripoff scheme come from the USA. Maybe this is relevant to a difference in tax rates, maybe not. I don't know.