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Originally Posted by Makarov

B.C. total non-resource, non-federal contribution, revenue in 2012: ~$31.5 billion (just for you: provincial sales tax accounts for $6 billion, or essentially as much as income taxes) (SOURCE).
B.C. population in 2012: 4.6 million people.
Per capita non-resource, non-federal contribution, revenue: $6,850. This is over $500 per capita more than Alberta.

Quebec total non-resource, non-federal contribution, revenue in 2012: $50 billion (provincial sales tax accounted for $14 billion of this, compared to $18 billion from income tax) (SOURCE).
Quebec population in 2012: 7.9 million people.
Per capita non-resource, non-federal contribution, revenue: $6,329. This is essentially the same as Alberta.

I have now accounted for 30 million Canadians, or over three quarters of Canada's population. In each case, income and corporate tax revenues only accounted for a portion of total government revenue (surprise, surprise.) In each case, sales taxes accounted for a significant portion of government revenue (surprise, surprise.) In each case, the province (in the case of Ontario and Quebec, both "have-not" provinces) examined received as much or more non-resource revenue than Alberta. Therefore, Danielle Smith's conclusion was flawed and clearly misleading. Indeed, Alberta may very well have a revenue problem.

Are you satisfied now? Good grief.

Wow, finally some substance even if we are missing a majority of the provinces. But at least a decent starting point and only took about 10 times asking.

What you have shown is that sales taxes raise somewhere around $1200-1700 annually on a per capita basis. With Alberta's much superior tax base and no sales tax we still are only barely behind Ontario and BC in terms of revenues and exactly on par with Quebec.

And, of course, the real kicker is that all these numbers do not include resource revenues. If Alberta had stayed the course on saving non-renewable resource revenues we could easily fund this small difference simply off of the interest of the savings. But even all this is assuming we as provinces are spending a reasonable amount but that's a discussion for another day. It seems Danielle Smith was correct in showing that the Alberta Tax Advantage suggests there is no revenue shortfall at all in this province.