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Originally Posted by flamesaresmokin
The cost of removing or reducing tuition will cost the province millions of dollars per year (bordering on hundreds of million eventually when enrollment goes through the roof)? The ralph bucks will also cost the province millions of dollars when you're giving every tax payer a couple hundred dollars.
There are 30 thousand active teachers in AB. If all of them somehow claimed the max on this break (would more likely be a very small percentage as is the case with all tax breaks) it wouldn't even amount to anything close to the cost of these other perks.
I really don't see why anyone is getting bent out of shape for this when these other proposals are completely ludicrous. Especially when you are most concerned with the province not being able to afford a small tax break in comparison to hundreds of millions of dollars of free money/tuition breaks.
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While I agree that free tuition is a bad move, enrolment woudln't go through the roof because admissions would be capped.
Again, the problem with this is that it's a special interest tax break, and one that was not collectively-bargained for. If that's okay, then I want a SebC tax break. I don't know why you'd have a problem with this, there's only one SebC, so it's not like it would cost a lot of money compared to a tax break for everyone.