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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Yeah reducing taxes is a bad idea to deal with surpluses, especially one based of resource revenue. When the money is gone and taxes have to rise again, you've only infuriated the population. Because resource revenue isn't forever, I'd prefer any surplus money go into the Heritage Fund. In the future, that could help keep taxes lower when revenues from resources fall.
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There is just something obscene about over taxing when the money isn't needed. Kind of like all those years we over paid into EI and the extra money was just plowed into general revenue to be wasted as the Liberals saw fit.
Leave the $$$ in my pocket. Tax for what you need with perhaps a small cushion for a rainy day... but don't over tax me repeatedly because you are afraid of having to raise taxes when revenues drop. I don't mind a tax increase if its justified and the taxes we give now are spent prudently.