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Originally Posted by shermanator
IIRC Nenshi floated the idea of a 1% sales tax to fund projects such as stadiums, libraries, transit, etc. Would bring in ~350 mil annually. Building a new football and soccer stadium would be funded from taxes such as these.
Personally, I would love the idea of such a sales tax (1% on everything isn't enough for me to notice), but I can see a lot of people coming on board with the idea. I can already see the Rick Bell article now...
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This make some sense but it would never be passed because it would still be a hard sell to use that money on stadiums, etc while proposing cuts to the police force.
I still think the goverment of Alberta missed on opportunity to implement at 2% PST when the federal goverment decreased the GST to 5%.
It would have kept us with no real change to what the province was used to paying and it would have helped raise some money to improve the funding for education and poilce services in the province.