Some might be worried about the “reverse robin hood” affirmative that takes from the poor and gives to the rich. There is in fact some T evidence to support it.

The policy decisions of governments, whether at the federal, provincial, or local level or in the public pension sector (Canada Pension Plan/Quebec Pension Plan (C/QPP]) have an impact on Canadians' pocketbooks. Families pay taxes in exchange for the benefits of government expenditure, such as unemployment insurance, health care, or defence. Of course, the exchange is not exact for all families—taxes may be either more or less than benefits received— and so there may be a broad relationship between a family's income and its gain or loss from the fiscal operations of government. This gain or loss may be called "fiscal redistribution." Fiscal redistribution could vary from the situation, at one extreme, where all tax revenues are collected from higher income groups and all benefits are distributed to lower income groups ("government as Robin Hood") to the other extreme, where lower income groups pay all of the taxes while higher income groups receive all of the benefits ("government as reverse Robin Hood").' This article examines where the Canadian public sector fits on this continuum by first apportioning, across all family income groups, both the amount of taxes paid and the amount of benefits received, and then attempting to determine the impact of fiscal redistribution across and between income groups.