AB Government needs to start acting like a government and not make goop in the ground their primary source of revenue; taxes should be how money is raised, in the most efficient tax structures that proportionally everyone contributes to equally without being unfair, both for people and businesses.
I see no choice here but to bump up the flat tax rate from 10% to 12%, and introduce a provincial sales tax that can be used only when there is a deficit with a particular threshold in the economy to activate it. I would probably support this simply because then it means that our provincial government doesn't run into dire straits.
Of course, this is after a healthy reduction in spending and cutting the fat first.
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