Reading Time: 3 minutes Albertans’ income tax is increasing in 2021, courtesy of Premier Jason Kenney’s sneaky backdoor tax grab known as bracket creep
Tag: Alberta politics
Sun-soaked vacations show why Albertans need recall legislation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Albertans have every right to hate the hypocrisy coming from United Conservative Party
Alberta’s politicians need to take a pay cut
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our politicians are asking Albertans to make massive sacrifices, but most don’t seem willing to make the same sacrifice
Alberta’s rising crime rate begs more policing, not less
Reading Time: 4 minutes The ‘defund the police’ movement provides opportunistic politicians with a moral high ground while doing nothing to address the root causes of criminality
The Alberta government is not taking too little from taxpayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Instead of reaching deeper into their pockets, it’s time for Alberta’s politicians to start living within taxpayers’ means.
More UCP MLAs need to speak out against a PST
Reading Time: 3 minutes Albertans didn’t elect the United Conservatives so they could have their turn reaching deeper into our pockets
Alberta’s debt was unsustainable even before COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes Analysis shows Alberta must significantly reduce spending relative to the size of the economy or raise taxes
Alberta taxpayers should be complaining, not union bosses
Reading Time: 3 minutes Union bosses need a reminder that every government-employee paycheque ultimately comes from taxpayers
Alberta sales tax a bad bet to balance the books
Reading Time: 3 minutes For politicians, spending expands to meet any additional revenue, so a sales tax would only increase spending, not reduce deficit
Alberta desperately needs to reduce its labour costs
Reading Time: 3 minutes No hope of balancing the budget and repaying the debt unless public service starts to share the pain felt by average Albertans