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Old 03-20-2014, 11:07 AM   #830
GP_Matt
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken View Post
I don't understand why taxes are such a huge boogeyman in Alberta.

If Peter Lougheed thought tax rates should increase, why is this idea treated like a communist conspiracy to take your money?

It is baffling to me.
I am not against higher taxes, but I really don't trust the PC government with ore money. In my opinion if they get a tax increase through they will use the money to buy the next election (raises for public sector and big spending for the rest).

I could get behind a party that wanted to raise taxes and mandate a fixed amount of the royalty revenue into a trust fund.
Unfortunately, the PCs raided the Sustainability fund very shortly after they created it. They also unwrote their own rule about balanced budgets.
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