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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
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.
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Unfortunately, all of these provinces have significantly cheaper labour costs than Alberta. Also, all of these provinces have multi-billion dollar deficits with these revenue amounts. So Alberta has a long way to go in order to reach a sustainable revenue amount.
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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
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.
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Yes, but we haven't so, its sort of a moot observation.
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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
It seems Danielle Smith was correct in showing that the Alberta Tax Advantage suggests there is no revenue shortfall at all in this province.
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No, she was not (please see above.)