Think tank says the Alberta Advantage is no more | CTV Calga
Newsbot @ Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:46 am
Title: Think tank says the Alberta Advantage is no more | CTV Calgary News
Category: Political
Posted By: uwish
Date: 2017-01-05 06:41:52
Canadian
uwish @ Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:46 am
and this, is squarely on the shoulders of the NDP.
shockedcanadian @ Thu Jan 05, 2017 8:47 am
Ontario is about to experience the same lost advantage when Trump passes a federal tax lower than Ontario, which is the lowest in North America at the moment.
Good luck!
DrCaleb @ Fri Jan 06, 2017 6:14 am
See, the article could have just named the 'think tank' in the headline, and we wouldn't have had to read the article.
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Finance Minister Joe Ceci said the Fraser Institute was only taking into account a few taxes and not showing the whole picture.
�When looking at the whole picture rather than cherry-picking certain taxes, Albertans enjoy the lowest overall tax in Canada,� Ceci said in an emailed statement. �Our tax advantage is roughly $7.5 billion over the next province. Alberta continues to have no sales tax, no payroll tax and no health premiums.
�When looking at the whole picture rather than cherry-picking certain taxes, Albertans enjoy the lowest overall tax in Canada,� Ceci said in an emailed statement. �Our tax advantage is roughly $7.5 billion over the next province. Alberta continues to have no sales tax, no payroll tax and no health premiums.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/albert ... story.html
uwish @ Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:08 am
"A recent study on such rates by University of Calgary economist Jack Mintz put Alberta behind New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec and Ontario. Alberta�s rate increased slightly, from 17 per cent in 2014 to 19.3 per cent in 2016. The province ranked sixth in 2014 and seventh in 2016."
Sure, but lets really believe a POLITICIAN over an prof at a university. Politicians aren't wrong are they?
BeaverFever @ Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:59 am
Red Flags:
1) Fraser Institute - right-wing think tank known for pedalling ideological garbage and taking money from controversial industries to sell their corporate agendas
2) Pretending that a decline in the oil market has nothing to do with the decline of Alberta's oil-based economy, while propagating discredited trickle-down economic theory in order to apologize and champion for the interests of "the wealthier".
$1:
The report, from the Fraser Institute, says that the provincial NDP have raised corporate taxes and restructured personal income taxes resulting in the wealthier paying more. As a result, the group says this is slowing the investment of money and people into the province."
3) The 10% flat tax was removed and replaced by the Conservative government, but notice how the article in the quote above and below, make it sound like it was the NDP:
$1:
Since the NDP took office, the corporate tax rate has gone up to 12 percent, which puts Alberta in a tie with Saskatchewan but passing B.C., Ontario and Quebec.
The 10 percent flat rate has been removed and replaced with a five-tiered scale, with the highest earners paying 15 percent.
The 10 percent flat rate has been removed and replaced with a five-tiered scale, with the highest earners paying 15 percent.
4) The article tries to downplay Fraser Institute's partisanship, referring to it only as "the group" or "the agency" as if it some unbiased source. Only the headline, whdescribes them as a "think tank" and headlines are often decided by an editor rather than the acutal author of the article. Often think tanks are not only called out in the body of the article, but referred to as "right-leaning" or "left leaning" or something along those lines as well.
The whole sum of the article is that Alberta has "lost it's advantage" and is now "middle of the pack" which apparently is something awful.
So based on that claim, I have 2 questions: Do they think Alberta such an awful place that the only attraction to living or doing business there is an absurdly low tax rate at any cost?
What's so wrong with being "middle of the pack"? Don't right-wing anti-elitists want to be in touch with the average Canadian?
As usual, anything with "Fraser Institute" in it is complete garbage
BeaverFever @ Fri Jan 06, 2017 11:02 am
uwish uwish:
Sure, but lets really believe a POLITICIAN over an prof at a university. Politicians aren't wrong are they?
Are you putting an expert's opinion ahead of an elected representative of the average person? You sound like an elitist!
uwish @ Thu Jan 26, 2017 2:52 pm
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Red Flags:
1) Fraser Institute - right-wing think tank known for pedalling ideological garbage and taking money from controversial industries to sell their corporate agendas
2) Pretending that a decline in the oil market has nothing to do with the decline of Alberta's oil-based economy, while propagating discredited trickle-down economic theory in order to apologize and champion for the interests of "the wealthier".
3) The 10% flat tax was removed and replaced by the Conservative government, but notice how the article in the quote above and below, make it sound like it was the NDP:
1) Fraser Institute - right-wing think tank known for pedalling ideological garbage and taking money from controversial industries to sell their corporate agendas
2) Pretending that a decline in the oil market has nothing to do with the decline of Alberta's oil-based economy, while propagating discredited trickle-down economic theory in order to apologize and champion for the interests of "the wealthier".
$1:
The report, from the Fraser Institute, says that the provincial NDP have raised corporate taxes and restructured personal income taxes resulting in the wealthier paying more. As a result, the group says this is slowing the investment of money and people into the province."
3) The 10% flat tax was removed and replaced by the Conservative government, but notice how the article in the quote above and below, make it sound like it was the NDP:
$1:
Since the NDP took office, the corporate tax rate has gone up to 12 percent, which puts Alberta in a tie with Saskatchewan but passing B.C., Ontario and Quebec.
The 10 percent flat rate has been removed and replaced with a five-tiered scale, with the highest earners paying 15 percent.
The 10 percent flat rate has been removed and replaced with a five-tiered scale, with the highest earners paying 15 percent.
BS
Alberta has had 10% flat tax for decades, it WAS the NDP that changed that. Sometimes I think you lie so much you start to believe your own BS!
peck420 @ Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:02 pm
uwish uwish:
BS
Alberta has had 10% flat tax for decades, it WAS the NDP that changed that. Sometimes I think you lie so much you start to believe your own BS!
Alberta has had 10% flat tax for decades, it WAS the NDP that changed that. Sometimes I think you lie so much you start to believe your own BS!
Prentice is the first to remove the flat tax.
Zipperfish @ Thu Jan 26, 2017 4:02 pm
I think the drop in global oil prices might have something to do with it too.
BartSimpson @ Thu Jan 26, 2017 4:04 pm
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Red Flags:
FTFY.
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BartSimpson @ Thu Jan 26, 2017 4:05 pm
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
I think the drop in global oil prices might have something to do with it too.
Sorta like how the sun might have some vague effect on the climate.
2Cdo @ Thu Jan 26, 2017 4:06 pm
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
I think the drop in global oil prices might have something to do with it too.
Which is Steven Harpers fault, or Mike Harris depending which Liberal you ask.
Zipperfish @ Thu Jan 26, 2017 4:29 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
I think the drop in global oil prices might have something to do with it too.
Sorta like how the sun might have some vague effect on the climate.
Sorta the opposite really.
Lemmy @ Thu Jan 26, 2017 5:24 pm
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