Saturday's letters: Alberta doesn't pay equalization; you do

Re. “Politicians bash equalization program … again,” Graham Thomson, June 23
Graham Thomson is partially correct when he states, “Have provinces such as Alberta and Saskatchewan do not send money to ‘have-not’ provinces such as Quebec.”
Of course, there is no payment by the Alberta government to the government in Ottawa. The federal government taxes Albertans at the same rates as it taxes all other Canadians.
Then it spends its tax revenues. Their spend