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Originally Posted by Rerun
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.
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It's not obscene at all when you consider these revenues are for non renewable resource rents.
Those revenues are here now but won't be in the future. The responsible and fiscally conservative thing to do south all of those revenues is to save them and let it grow as a fund to build the capacity and ability to transition is to a (not so distant) future where those rents go away.
To the"fiscal conservatives"that advocate for lower taxes to be spent out of the public purse by leeching away the value of a resource that belongs to all Albertans including future Albertans you are the worst kind of spend thrift.
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