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Raising taxes might make sense if we had a revenue problem but I think we have a spending problem. And for those advocating that we need to raise taxes to build a nest egg for the future that sounds way too much like you think the government should be taking our money and putting it away for the future because we are incapable of doing it ourselves.
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This kind of line of thinking just kills me. You do have a revenue problem, a very big one. You're using the rents from non-renewable resource development to fund general operations and entitlements.
So you're dependent on one industry, prone to boom and busts, for propping up the level of service your government provides. The problems with this type of model should be self-evident.