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Tax Reform

Alberta's Intergenerational Theft: We're Just Getting Started

Kent Hehr | Posted 05.25.2013 | Canada Alberta
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Kent Hehr

Future Albertans, future children and grandchildren of this province call the cops, you have been robbed. Actually, robbed may be too generous a term: this has been no shoplifting offense. You have been victim of grand larceny. This theft is on par with the scam pulled by Bernie Madoff. It makes the Great Train Robbery look like child's play.

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Harper's Made Alphabet Soup of our Tax System

Deborah Coyne | Posted 10.10.2012 | Canada Politics
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Deborah Coyne

The conclusion of a study in the Canadian Tax Journal that Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) have become yet another tax break that favours high-income Canadians should come as no surprise. Since 2006, the Harper government has worsened the alphabet soup of exemptions and tax credits that passes for our tax system, by essentially bribing certain segments of the population.

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The Case For a Flat Tax

Gerry Nicholls | Posted 10.31.2011 | Canada
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Gerry Nicholls

Left-wingers and other pro-big government advocates call this sort of tax policy "progressive," but in reality such taxes actually retard progress. Just think about it. A higher tax rate for higher incomes and profits essentially means the government is financially punishing success.

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