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Originally Posted by nik-
I will say though, if Calgarians got the type of property tax bills that my family in Ontario gets, they'd have a ####ing stroke.
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Probably not the best example as Wynn has basically driven that province into the ground.
If we had to pay the utility rates, property taxes and now the carbon tax that's going to be pushed there which is a thinly disguised grab for general funds in Alberta we'd be storming the legislature.
there's no question that there are going to have to be some new tax options examined here due to the falling oil prices. But there is going to have to be some delay on new projects, there is going to have to be some big time axing on the civil service in this province.
you can't just throw out a new tax system increase without cuts, that's breaking the faith with the voters.
Especially since this government was put into place with one of their platforms being no new taxes.
Call an election, put a PST in the platform and let the people vote on it.
Personally I don't mind a PST as an emergency measure due to revenue shortfalls due to the Oil pricing crisis. But I would want to see it as an temporary emergency measure.