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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
And historically even more voters voted for a party that could only balance the budget with enormous and unprecedented energy royalties rolling into government coffers year after year.
Just wait until a government makes a genuine effort to balance the provincial budget without relying on energy royalties. After every independent outside analyst recommends a sales tax as an obvious measure (as they have every other time the issue has been studied), we'll see just how dumb Alberta voters really are.
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I'm going to bang this drum a little bit more.
As of right now our top marginal tax rate in Alberta is 48.5% and these 'experts' feel that levying a sales tax on top of that is the most obvious measure, but the most obvious measure isnt necessarily the right measure.
We need to take a very long, hard look at our spending and the value we receive for our Government dollars.
We're paying some of the highest taxes not only in this country but in the Western World, in conjunction with Oil royalties and the only solution the independent analysts and experts can come up with is 'add another tax?'
That is vapid and lazy.