If you're not a fan of the Provincial carbon tax coming our way in the New Year, you likely won't be a fan of the proposed Federal carbon tax likely to join it.

During last year's election, the Liberals promised tax cuts and other reforms, but Foothills MP John Barlow says that's just a shell game.

"They campaigned on a tax cut for the middle class, when the math came back we found out it's actually a dollar a day for the average Canadian. But, lower income Canadians get nothing. Now they're talking about a mandatory increase on the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), which will cost Canadians about four-thousand dollars per person. And now a carbon tax. It seems like every week that passes by there's another tax that they want to implement on Canadians."

Supporters of a carbon tax say its imposition will clear the way for pipelines to be built both East and West, as any greenhouse emissions from one, would be negated by the carbon savings of the other.

Not so, says Barlow.

"For me, "A," it doesn't give you that social license. And "B," no one's been able to show me definitive proof that it reduces GHG's (Green House Gasses), and that it's not just another tax grab. Until somebody can say that, I think there are other ways that we can address global warming, if that's our ultimate goal. And not just raise taxes on Canadians."

Barlow says sometimes he feels like Alberta is under attack by the Trudeau Liberals.

He says when added to the existing GST, and the soon to be implemented Provincial carbon tax, we'll have a tax, on a tax, on a tax.

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