The government knows that it is next to impossible to squeeze money from the 1% because they all have their money offshore, work in government, or are executives at too big to fail companies that are untouchable.  So what they've decided to do is go after the low hanging fruit, the doctors, plumbers and restaurant owners who they can pass off as the 1% to the gullible, and are also easy targets. They are taking money from a demographic of the middle class that is less likely to vote Liberal, and selling themselves as helping the middle class so it fits their campaign slogans and appeals to the Liberal base.  People want what the Liberals promised, which is to tax the 1%, but this proposal hardly does that.  It mainly taxes the middle class.