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Originally Posted by edslunch
Good question about Catholic vs CBE, CBE should not be immune to scrutiny. And while I used education as the example since it directly affects my family, I meant this as a taxation/revenue thread not an education one. So yeah, health care is a big issue too.
I'm thinking a more progressive income tax would be more palatable. There are a lot of well off people here - would it hurt them to pony up a bit more? I also heard that if we raised corporate taxes to the level of the next lowest province it would raise $18B - not that we want to go all that way but that's a big chunk of change.
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Sales tax is actually quite a progressive tax in that it doesn't tax essentials and the more you spend the more you pay in tax. It also generates revenues from tourism as all the people from Saskatchewan shopping at our IKEA. Also the current GST rebates help out the <40k earners and I assume would be continued to be applied. The other part of a Sales tax I like is that it is clearly visible. You know what you are paying.
Now you could just tax those earning over 150k by making a new bracket and that would go over well politically but really removing our reliance on resource revenue and the long term reduction of income taxes is something everyone should fund.