The problem is even worse than described, with an even narrower portion of the population actually paying taxes - the childless.  The new Child Benefit has effectively taken millions more off the tax rolls who were once productive taxpayers.   The Child Benefit is the main driver of the new, much larger deficit and it somehow always escapes notice of the Trudeau critics.  It also seems to have escaped notice of conservative writers that the Child Benefit is a huge new state intrusion into child rearing, making the state the daddy and the childless a new class of Canadian serfs.  Stalin would be very proud of his disciple in the P.M.O..