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Originally Posted by shermanator
We need to get away from revenue that is so heavily tied to natural resources. IMO, a sales tax is the best way to do this, but doing so would be political suicide, so it will never come to fruition.
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You can't kill yourself if you are immortal.
The Conservatives are going to run the province forever. Here we have a Premier who says a dip in oil prices has led to "the Alberta government’s worst fiscal situation in generations", and they will
still win the next election handily.
I mean if you can pull that off, you can pretty much do whatever you want. Maybe the sales tax will start on baby food and drinking water, and they'll ease us in from there.
But yeah, I agree with you. Not sure if that came across. Maybe a corporate tax hike would be a better start than a sales tax though.