I have no outright problem with a sales tax, but I am afraid of what Ranchland is saying. If they raise a new source of revenue to meet their needs this year, what happens when prices recover and they have huge surpluses.
If they raise taxes and then remove oil revenues (or a portion of them) from the budget then I will support it completely. Otherwise, the next recession will come and we will already have a sales tax in place.
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