It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way (K.Marx, Letter to F.Engels on the Indian Mutiny)
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Smokers and Smokestack Industries
While opposing any form of carbon tax on Greenhouse Gases the Stelmach government in Alberta increases taxes on smokers.
The lone tax increase: Tobacco
Taxes for smokers not smoke stack industries is their motto.
The Ed Stelmach government's first Alberta provincial budget hikes spending by 10%, but has few new initiatives to show for it.Average Albertans will get modest tax relief of about $50 a year, but smokers were hit with a 63-cents-a-pack hike in cigarette taxes as of midnight Thursday, making tobacco taxes in Alberta the highest in Canada.
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My take on the Alberta Budget 2007
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