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As the campaign trail winds on, the word ‘taxpayer’ is getting a real workout. You could be excused for thinking you need to bring your T1 to the polling station.\\n\\nFor a long time, some proof of wealth really was needed. Voting was restricted to white men who owned property for Canada’s first 12 elections. Some form of property requirement was still on the books as late as 1948, making politics the domain of the wealthy (in addition to excluding certain racial backgrounds, of course). Not anymore. Now you can vote no matter how much money is in your bank account.\\n\\nWe are citizens, but election rhetoric tends to lump us together as taxpayers. Technically, every consumer is a taxpayer, even if it’s just the few cents you owe the government for buying that bottle of pop. But in election speak, from all parts of the political spectrum, the term tends to refer only to the middle-class. Most speeches, policy proposals and photo ops are targeted at these elusive voters. 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