Trudeau's mantra during the 2015 election was lowering taxes "on the middle class and those working hard to join it".

The corollary was raising taxes on the top 1% which went over well among the non-1% as a vote getter for the Liberals.

As Butts recently said to Bannon, nothing works better politically than rich people seen to be raising taxes on rich people.

But the Liberals have found the only way they can keep even some of their rash election promises is to explode deficits far beyond what they promised and increase and add new taxes, fees, permits and other revenue tools.

Thus the middle class now pays more in taxes and fees to the federales than they did in the Harper years with more to come from the carbon related taxes and price hikes.

This assault on small business played as another attack on the wealthy to ensure tax fairness won't raise much revenue and may even be a net loss by reducing economic growth.

But it may well be a useful political diversion with the public.

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