To the Editor:
Among the dog’s breakfast of facts in a recent letter (‘Do you Identify with your province, or your country first?’ January 8), two stood out. The average Albertan’s after-tax income is 33% higher than that of his fellow-Canadians, and Alberta has no provincial sales tax.
The author thinks these are bad things. I don’t. He seems to have forgotten that the function of taxes is to help government provide essential services and protections, not to reduce