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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
I'd be in favour of a small sales tax...provided it gets removed once oil prices inevitably again. Would that happen? Of course not. And then when oil inevitably drops again, another tax will get put in place because the precedent will have been set. And the cycle will continue.
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You're identifying the problem - relying on royalties as a stable source of revenue to fund services. It just doesn't work. Taxes should be the cake, royalties the icing.