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Originally Posted by Slava
I do understand what you're saying, but the fact is people buying luxury goods is totally taxable. These aren't necessary items and they're a lot of "nice to have" things. I see your argument that the tax might cause some decrease in sales, but then how do you juxtapose that with the sales in say BC of these items? They have higher taxes, and seemingly little issue selling iPads and such in Vancouver.
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The thing is in Calgary, a Computer, a Car or extra money to register in sports are not nice to haves they are needs if you want to raise your family in a healthy, active, and learning environment,
Anyone holding down a full time job should be able to provide these, a home, clothing, food, and probably a little bit of entertainment for themselves for themselves and 1 dependent. And the fact is anyone making less than $50,000/year in Calgary really cannot afford that. So to raise taxes on those people in any way, is taking people in a bad situation and making it worse, because of that the only solution is a tiered tax system like everywhere else in Canada.
The Fact is even if the rich contribute more to a sales tax, the working poor will be effected much more.
The only other solution is to pretty much double the minimum wage, but that will probably just inflame the problem because minimum wage earns would go up $20k/yr, so executives would feel it is only fair their salaries go up $100k/yr, causing inflation and putting us right back where we are. Huge income disparity,