Ah yes taxtaxtaxtax. With so many people out of work I guess the banks and government will soon own everything due to failure to pay outrageous taxes.

As long as the public continue to elect governments that perscribe to neo-liberal ideologies, we shall continue to see the misguided and completely morally corupt patterns of reducing corporate income taxation. This damaging behaviour resultsa in the governments financial cupboards to be constantly and increasingly bare. The only way to replace the corporate give aways is to increase personal, individual taxation. We literally do it to ourselves when we elect the Campbell's and Harper's of this world. Other political parties also subscribe to this socially damaging ideologies as well, but they reduce corporate taxes at a much slower rate than the more militant neo-liberal parties.
The theory of lost corporate taxation being balanced by the increased value of publically traded corporate stocks (trickle down benifits in neo-lib parlance) is never more revealled as a lie than during times of economic downturn such as we have seen in the last year.
If you really want to pay lower personal income taxes, start demanding our politicans represent the people and not corporate greed. "Governments should fear the people, not people fearing the government."
"The economy is meant to support society, not society being here to support the economy." As long as we allow this to prevail in our elected offices, no one has the right to complain about high personal taxation. If you must complain look at yourelf in the mirror and see your real oppressor.

"The only way to replace the corporate give aways is to increase personal, individual taxation"

That is true, however, it has not occured. Personal income taxes have gone down a number of times in the past decade, both Provincially and Federally (assuming a constant income for comparison purposes of course).

"If you really want to pay lower personal income taxes, start demanding our politicans represent the people and not corporate greed"

Or you could just elect the Federal Libs, Federal Conservatives or Provincial Libs because they all reduced personal income taxes. I don't recall if the Provincial NDP reduced them the last time they were in office, but they probably did as well since it was the flavour of the month and a good tactic to get elected.

That being said, while the reduction of income taxes usually results in a tangible individual benefit, it doesn't always result in an overall benefit to our population as it takes money away from the coffers that could be used to pay for those boring things we all need, but don't pay too much attention to, like health care, roads, the environment, etc.

No government can ever really effectively tax a 'corporation', since to remain in business the corporation has to recover all its costs, including the costs of any taxation imposed on it, and can only do so ultimately from the consuming public. It's that consuming public ~ all of us, that end up paying the tax in the form of higher prices.

What acidrider54 said above has a great deal of truth in it. We could look back thousands of years, to the time of the Biblical Joseph's 'corn racket' in the ancient Egypt of the Pharoah's, to see how little has changed over time.

While it made perfect sense back then to put aside a portion of each year's harvest in the years of bountiful plenty as insurance against any future years of famine, it was a cruel irony to make the very people who'd paid the 'tax' in surplus grain in the good years pay another tax in 'money' to access it in the bad ones.

All that did was concentrate control over the land of Egypt into the hands of those who controlled the 'money' ~ Pharoah, and the precursor of today's 'banker', Joseph.

We really need to look at the real problem of our modern age. The one that keeps exponentially increasing public 'debt' no matter how much our tax bills are put towards it, or whether a government's budget is 'balanced' or not.

So long as there is continually ongoing 'labour' income displacement in favour of charges allocated to 'capital', (automation, technological advancement, mechanisation, etc.) in the whole economy, the overall total amount of incomes distributed will continually fall in ratio to the overall total costs of production being impressed into retail prices at the point of final sale to consumers.

There will be a widening'gap' between total collective 'price' of all goods and services, and total collective 'incomes' necessary to fully liquidate that 'price'. No amount of government 'make work' stimulus programs can do anything to alleviate this problem long-term. It only defers it, while it grows ever larger. There is a solution, but those in banking and government would never consider it, since it would weaken their control over us. Which will eventually collapse anyways, unless it's maintained as it's traditionally been maintained, through war.

Lets hope the people of Mackenzie can also get 25% reduction of taxes over the next three like Canfor because the people of Mackenzie have been through a lot more than canfor or get 10000 dollars for every employee it says it will retrain if and when they start up the canfor mill in Mackenzie and lets hope the mayor and council discuus this 25% reduction in their taxes which for most people would put food on the table and not help pay for some CEO of Canfor get severance