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Carbon tax another burden on Alberta families: CTF

Alberta’s new carbon tax is going to hit Alberta families in the pocketbook according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

The average household will see an extra $320 tacked onto its bills in 2017, rising to $470 in 2018 and continuing to climb as high as $900 per year by 2030 if the price of carbon increases at the predicted rate.

“Where did the Alberta government get the idea that Alberta families had an extra $900 lying around they didn’t want,” said CTF Alberta Director Paige MacPherson in a press release. “This carbon tax is kicking Albertan families and businesses when they’re down.”

While the CTF  says the new tax will hurt consumers and small businesses, Alberta’s oil giants are fully behind the proposed changes.

“The carbon tax adds to the laundry list of tax hikes this government has imposed,” said MacPherson. “Six months in office and they’ve increased income taxes, business taxes, existing carbon taxes, taxes on cigarettes, train fuel and beer, and now this. Yet they haven’t cut back at all. When will this government stop bankrolling their irresponsible decisions on the backs of taxpayers?”

CTF expects that Albertans living in rural communities will be hit the hardest, much like they in British-Columbia according to a CTF report.