My biggest worry with new taxes is not the increase itself, but what will happen when/if resource revenue rebounds. If the taxes are to replace the reliance on resource revenue then I don't want the government spending the resource revenue on program spending. I would love to see something setup that if the resource revenue is above a certain low level the money will automatically go into the Heritage fund or some other source that can't be easily touched. Ideally, there would be something preventing them from using it unless resource revenue dropped below a certain threshold.
I would also be okay if all the resource revenue was directed towards a monolith of astronomic proportions and no practical use. Something on the scale of the Great Pyramids (both in terms of cost, practical usage and longevity).
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