A taxing problem

Hey I just put my numbers in the Frasier Institute's Personal Tax Freedom Calculator to see where I match up... all I can say is OUCH, thanks Alberta.

My personal tax freedom day is June 12, the worst in Canada. That is appalling. And no my income is not high.

In fact I pay, according to this, about $1000 extra dollars to the "man" than the next highest, Quebec.

Now for clarity here is what Frasier considers as apart of their calculation:

The Personal Tax Freedom Day calculator, like Tax Freedom Day, includes all
taxes from all levels of government that Canadians pay.
This includes:
income & sales taxes
liquor, tobacco, amusement & other excise taxes
automobile, fuel, & motor vehicle licence taxes
CPP/QPP and EI contributions
medical & hospital taxes
property taxes
import duties
profit taxes
natural resource levies

So it includes some things I do not use but still it is amazing.

So now it is daycare

The provincial government is soon to announce an agreement with the Federal Liberals over childcare. This nationalized daycare will allow the Tories some leverage in the spending the money on private providers.

The problem here is that of the 45% of Albertan kids in childcare only 22% (according to Stats Can) are in daycares. So we are setting up yet another Social safety net for about 90,000 kids while the rest go without support.

Here is a suggestion for the Klein government, use the 70 million to pass on tax cuts for parents and give some incentives for parents, who are the best carers for their children, to keep one of them at home. Stop making things so that parents feel they have to both work to make ends meet in part to pay the tax burden you helped to create.

Oh and while your at it stop allowing the Federal Liberals bribe us with our own money. Stop taking the bribes and then maybe your "tough" talk on provincial rights might actually have teeth. Or is that too much to ask?