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Originally Posted by temple5
I guess we disagree. I dont think the NDP loses any votes they havent already lost with a PST. If anything they would increase the number of potential voters because alot of people voting PC previously thought there should have been a PST along time ago.
The time of using Resource Revenues to pay for yearly budget items needs to end. The government needs to get into a position where at the very least non 1 time infrastructure costs are 100% paid for by income/sales tax and not resource revenues.
For a government to have to rely on commodity forecasting for their budget, like WTF who are we, Iran, Saudi, Kuwait.
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Yeah, I think that you're mis-reading the mood here.
If they pack a consumer tax, on top of a carbon tax (non voluntary consumer tax), on top of shuffling the tax structure, all within the first year of this government, the voters are going to get pinched, and they're going to rage.
The NDP really had one choice, a carbon tax, or a PST. Plus Notley came out against a PST.
Again, you can't tax your way out of a bad economy.
Plus PST's and Carbon taxes usually tend to hurt lower and middle income taxpayers more then anyone else.
Maybe if they would have made their budget with realistic numbers especially on commodities like Oil Prices, instead of numbers based on copious amounts of fairy dust and Bolivian dancing powder their budget would have actually made sense.