The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on Alberta MLA's to vote down an idea by the NDP for taxpayers to subsidize political expenses heading into the next election.

CTF Alberta Director Paige MacPherson says it would end up costing us a lot of money, when most of us can't afford it.

"We did an estimate and found that taxpayers could end up shelling out over nine-million dollars in cash to political parties and politicians in the next Provincial election if this policy was passed."

The idea would see any political party getting 10% of the vote receiving up to 50% of the money they spent on the campaign back from the Province coffers.

A release from the CTF breaks down the cost of the program:

Using numbers from the 2015 Alberta general election, and averaging the spending from the ridings of Calgary-McCall, Edmonton-Ellerslie and Lacombe-Ponoka, the CTF estimates that if this subsidy were in place, it would have cost taxpayers a total of $9,042,861.30 for the last election.

In Edmonton-Ellerslie, NDP MLA Rod Loyola, who introduced the motion, would have received a taxpayer kickback of $11,095.69.

PC candidate Harman Kandola would have received $59,595.13, and Wildrose candidate Jacqueline Lovely would have received $24,666.52.

Highwood MLA Wayne Anderson sits on the committee that came up with the plan and voted against it.

You can find his comments "HERE."