Canadians pay more taxes than for food shelter and clothing combined

The report also notes that taxes have grown much more rapidly than any other single expenditure on the list. Costs for shelter increased by 2,349 per cent between 1961 and the present, while food prices climbed 952 per cent, and clothing just 526 per cent in the same period. Even the Consumer Price Index, which measures the average price that consumers pay for food, shelter, clothing, transportation, health and personal care, education, and other items, grew 946 per cent in that period.