Now all we have to do is move it to March 19.
Tax freedom day June 19, says Fraser Institute
Updated Fri. Jun. 16 2006 8:49 AM ET
Canadian PressVANCOUVER—Canadians start working for themselves this Monday, June 19, according to the Fraser Institute’s annual Tax Freedom Day calculations.
That’s five days earlier than last year, when it fell on June 24.
Tax Freedom Day, calculated by the conservative think tank since 1977, is supposedly when Canadians have anted up the share of their incomes paid to all levels of government in taxes and start working for themselves.
Tax cuts by the federal government – notably the drop in the GST rate to six from seven per cent – and the provinces are the reason for the five-day improvement in this year’s date, the institute said in a news release Friday.
Note how the story abides by liberal-left media guidelines by informing us that it is a conservative think tank (like, “WARNING—this ain’t liberal-leftist!”). To a far-leftist, a group that stands for free markets and non-socialism, which is what the Fraser Institute is all about, requires a warning descriptor. “Right-wing”. “Conservative”. Not just “normal”.
Let’s prove that theory. Later in the article, as liberal media always does (because this is also in their handbook), they arrange to check, verify, arrange a contradiction, and if at all possible arrange a sound mocking of the “conservative” facts by asking a leftist for their opinion. Conservatives (nor even their “conservative think tanks”) are allowed to have the last word. So they asked (no not really – read on) the far-left socialist Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives for their opinion.
They describe them in their story as the… “Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives”.
The institute’s Tax Freedom Day exercise has come under fire by one group as a misleading gimmick which underestimates Canadians’ incomes and overstates their taxes.
Last year, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives put out a paper saying the Fraser Institute’s method of calculating the date each year is…
Last year they came out with that “paper”, so that’s not even part of the news! The reporter dug that up! It was a deliberate attempt by the reporter to water-down and contradict the story he was reporting on.
Nope. No liberal media here.
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