If you take into account the advantages individuals in the first tax bracket get, the net tax rate is very favourable. It is not high.
It is often in the second tax bracket that individuals and families begin to lose their advantages. At that point, the effective tax rates are higher. We made the decision to increase marginal tax rates to rebalance the system around the middle. Other measures were taken by the government to provide more assistance to people with lower incomes. It is a government policy.