Tax rates
are not higher now than they were in 1993.
From a Globe and Mail editorial (an editorial where they endorsed the Conservatives in this election, no less):
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Ask yourself a simple multiple of Ronald Reagan's famous electoral question: Are you better off today than you were 12 years ago? Unemployment then stood at 11.2 per cent. Today, it is 6.5 per cent. An average mortgage rate was 8.78 per cent. Now it is 5.99 per cent, making home ownership affordable for hundreds of thousands more Canadians. The national debt has fallen from 66.5 per cent of gross domestic product to 38.7 per cent. Taxes are down; our standard of living is up.
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Emphasis mine.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...lDecision2006/