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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Mark my words, if Redford goes down this road what will happen is simply your taxes will be higher (income, sin taxes, and maybe a sales tax), the civil service will be more bloated with spending and we still won't be saving much more in the Heritage fund from Oil and Gas revenues regardless of the best of intentions. Reason being is that the percieved needs are really bottomless, and when a center party tries to be all things to all people the Heritage fund will ultimately be the one sacrificed.
The only way to provide incentive for the government to more efficiently manage money is to give them less of it in the first place.
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My sentiment exactly. It was like when I was getting allowance from my folks, no matter how much they gave me, I managed to piss it away on frivolous things as a teenager.
You think higher taxes translates into better services, just look at the Maritime and see what sorry state they are in 15% HST and they are still piss poor. Their youth come to AB to look for work leaving them with even less tax revenues but more seniors to take care of.
The government has no incentive to do more with less.