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Progressive Conservative leadership hopeful Jason “I don’t get caught up in the details” Kenney went to Twitter to express outrage about the provincial government’s tax plan and how it was ruining the economy because it made taxation high.
New study shows that the NDP's high tax ideology has destroyed the Alberta Advantage: https://t.co/tQvPQ325Cg pic.twitter.com/1bKbSmCvrm
— Jason Kenney (@jkenney) January 5, 2017
The problem with Kenney’s claim? Well, one of those pesky details he can’t be bothered with is that the New Democratic Party have a tax scheme that is still lower for all tax sectors than the Progressive Conservative posterboy Ralph Klein’s.
One wonders how taxes are “ruining” the performance of the Province which still has the lowest taxation rate in the country, even taking into account our new carbon tax.
Oh, and that “ruined economy”? Still the strongest in the country.
Can’t let pesky facts get in the way of our sabre-rattling, though. Governments don’t need details! And neither do pundits! That’s why all the papers say the province will fall apart, any second now!
-Shiv