BAD MATH
Re “Many crying in their beer as alcohol taxes set to jump on April 1: (Postmedia News, March 26): I don’t whether to laugh or cry? Laugh? The claim by Adrienne Vaupshas, press secretary of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, that the April 1 alcohol tax increase “will lead to less than a penny extra per can of beer” is absolutely ludicrous. According to her math that means she is paying roughly 16 cents per can. I don’t know where she is finding beer for that price, but I sure wish she would share her supplier. I pay about $3 per can. So that means next week I will be paying about 20 cents more per can. Cry? The fact that she is representing the finance minister is the really scary part.
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Terry Burke
Mississauga, Ont.
(No one could accuse the Liberals at being good at math, just look at the deficits they post)
FISCAL MERRY GO ROUND
Politicians make us poor. They are the problem not the solution. They will recklessly spend our money to bribe us to vote for them. In eight short years, Trudeau has blown 600 billion of our tax dollars. That’s 15 thousand dollars more each of us owe. Trudeau created inflation by doing this. Trudeau let one million Immigrants into Canada last year. They now cause food prices to rise along with rents and housing. Now Freeland is going to blow billions to subsidize poorer Canadians. Around and around we go.
Glenn Cunningham
Calgary, Alb.
(What they never understand or seem to care about us these policies adversely affect those low income Canadians)
THE CARBON THRESHOLD
Justin Trudeau says people below a specific earnings threshold will actually get more back than what they pay in carbon tax. I have a friend who works in retail and is well below that threshold. The company does have a profit sharing program that my friend relies on to make ends meet. This years profit sharing for her is 50% less, quite drastic and disappointing. Her employer says the biggest reason for large drop is the carbon tax. How are you going to reimburse her and people like her for that Justin? Oh, wait, the little people do not matter to this bunch of Liberal laurentian elites.
Paul Reidt
St. Agatha, Ont.
(The Trudeau Liberals are never going to do anything fiscally responsible, we need a new government)
