It amuses me to no end when a specific group of people in one specific place on the internet post a bunch of comments congratulating each for agreeing with each other and thinking they've reached a consensus.
In this situation, it's group of PST supporters that seem to have a lot of free time during the working day. It's easy to see why. What you don't realize is that you're not seeing a lot of objections because the people working real jobs are too busy to reply, and likely don't concern themselves with what low income earners and financial novices on a hockey based website think anyway.
Some of the funnier things I see here include ideas like "This province needs rely less on oil and gas revenue" followed by ideas like "we need to increase business taxes". So let me get this straight, your solution to not relying on oil and gas is to punish non oil and gas companies by increasing their tax burden. Fundamentally you want to create disincentives for companies to operate in Alberta.
It's like you collectively forgot (or probably never understood) what the Alberta Advantage was about. You forget why companies relocated their headquarters to Alberta in the first place. Low taxes. You want to punish companies for bringing jobs to Alberta, you want to punish them for bringing extra revenue in the form of business and personal taxes. Do you not see the consequences? You will drive them away, and they will to take the jobs with them.
I also enjoy the "tax the rich" comments. It says a lot about your financial status. There's nothing more amusing than people who earn less than others pay in taxes telling those others they need to pay more taxes. Don't you have a tent to be setting up in Olympic Plaza?
And finally, I can't believe some of you are willing to line up and give extra money to a government that has shown it doesn't know how to manage money. The PCs have a spending problem, and you think the solution is to give them more to spend? Do you think a PST solves spending problems? Are you deliberately ignoring the financial situations of provinces with sales taxes?
Anyway, have fun insulting me all day tomorrow. I'll be working.
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