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Still looking for tax savings answers

A rebuttal to Blaine Calkins, MP for Wetaskiwin:

A rebuttal to Blaine Calkins, MP for Wetaskiwin:

A few months ago, you claimed 140 different places where taxes were reduced. I asked, in an open letter to the Red Deer Advocate, for you to show us on paper what taxes were reduced for personal and what taxes were reduced for businesses.

Your reply to me came in an 87-page document. I have studied those pages but with the use of parliamentary and legal language, I am not savvy enough to understand the wordings or to figure them out. It’s a mumbo jumbo to me, as it is to most taxpayers.

It appears that you are smart enough as you printed the article of tax cuts in over 140 areas so you must know where they are, or did you print that number because that’s what you were told to do?

Once again, I will ask you for a list of where our taxes were cut and what percentage?

What taxes were cut for businesses and what taxes were for individuals, and what percentage?

I would like this list up to the date of your article.

And I would like another list since the new budget came out.

Lately we see fees for services going up in leaps and bound. These are tax increase, regardless of how you look at it.

Now the final question: do you have the knowledge and the authority to print these numbers or not?

You may try to strip me down with words but that will only be a smokescreen by you because you likely don’t know and likely wouldn’t be allowed to tell us if you do know.

Which is it?

Tom Skoreyko

Red Deer