With just under a week left in the final consultation period for the Liberal's proposed tax changes, Cypress Hills-Grasslands Conservative MP David Anderson is saying this is the federal government's way of dealing with overspending.

"Well, I think that this is an attempt by the Liberals to try and pay off some of the debt that they have run up," he said. "They're running a massive deficit. They've got a huge spending problem, and they refuse to get it under control. They need to start to find more revenue and what they have decided to do is to go after small companies, go after farmers, go after some of our doctors, and try to get some of that revenue back from them."

Anderson said that are better options like the government to rain in their spending rather than just taxing Canadians.

"They need to reign in their spending. This is ridiculous," the MP of 17 years said. "The Conservative government gave the Liberals a balanced budget; there has been no reason that they should be running a deficit. They are running deficits between 15 and 28 billion dollars, and there is no need for it, there's no reason for it other than they just cannot control their spending. The obvious solution is to get that spending under control, and I don't think they can do that, they have shown no interest in that at all, so their alternative or option is to start taxing Canadians higher."

The native of Frontier isn't the only MP speaking out against the proposed changes. Liberal MPs from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Prince Edward Island have also spoken out against the proposed tax changes.

Anderson said this isn't punishing the people abusing loopholes; it's punishing people who are successful.

"They're trying to punish successful people. If people are successful, they want to punish them, and in the past, we've always celebrated that," Anderson said. "We have seen people that successful as an example for the rest of us to try to emulate them and to try and become successful as well; these guys operate on a different principle which is if you are successful we ought to be able to punish you and drag you down."

Anderson urges that Canadians should let the government know what they think before the consultation period ends on October 2.