Mr. Speaker, the member commented on an interesting point. If we provide tax cuts in certain areas and reduce revenue, it means it has to be made up by either raising taxes in another area or cutting services.
\nThe member may want to comment on the advisability of the pension income splitting program, which would only benefit those who have defined pension benefit plans, who have a partner and whose pensions are in excess of about $38,000 just to start to get any benefit. It seems that it is benefiting high income earners over low. How does that ties in with the whole theme of tax fairness?
", "fr": "Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a formul\u00e9 une observation sur un point important. Les r\u00e9ductions d'imp\u00f4ts dans certains domaines et, partant, les r\u00e9ductions de recettes, doivent \u00eatre compens\u00e9es par des hausses d'imp\u00f4t dans d'autres domaines ou des compressions dans des services.
\nLe d\u00e9put\u00e9 aurait peut-\u00eatre quelques observations \u00e0 formuler quant \u00e0 la pertinence du programme de fractionnement des revenus de retraite, programme qui ne b\u00e9n\u00e9ficierait qu'\u00e0 ceux qui ont des r\u00e9gimes de retraite \u00e0 prestations d\u00e9termin\u00e9es, qui ont un partenaire et dont les revenus de retraite d\u00e9passent les 38 000 $. Il semble que ce programme b\u00e9n\u00e9ficie aux personnes qui ont des revenus \u00e9lev\u00e9s plut\u00f4t qu'aux gagne-petit. Comment ce programme s'inscrit-il sous le th\u00e8me de l'\u00e9quit\u00e9 fiscale?
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