Snappy, my point is you are still paying the same amount. Would we all like to pay less taxes? Sure. It's just that the 2 levels of government are fataing around with how the money is distributed. Klein says he is putting money from the surplus into education; a provincial issue. He looks good by doing that. Bronco says he is putting more money into police; a city issue. He looks good doing that.
At the end of the day your taxes are still the same.
However if Klein said that he was sending $25M to Calgary for police, it would just kinda go into page 7 news.
The problem is people show it as a 10% increase; when it's really the 5% that was dicussed months ago. It sells newspapers and makes people watch newscasts; when all it is is the gov't shuffling the deck.
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