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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
At the end of the day the next election will be a fight to recind the carbon tax and probably implement a stable PST in its place.
I put as much stock in NDP estimates and math as predictions for an Oilers Stanley Cup.
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Eh the carbon tax isn't going anywhere I don't think. At best someone will campaign to make it revenue neutral and throw in a few offsets. And we'll still get a PST.
The Topp and Notley plan is to pre-spend so much money that future tax hikes are impossible to avoid. It's clever politics really. We'll have 100b in debt, 60b in spending, and a 10-15b spending gap. Their opponents will be forced to campaign on tax hikes and deficits, because they've widened the gap so far that no amount of spending cuts can ever make it up.