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Originally Posted by stampsx2
Nobody forced you to take advantage of the money from the oilsands. Free funding for schools, healthcare, and a low pst it paid for so you wouldn't have to. You could of made additional tax contributions if you disagreed with it. When you got a cheque from ralph a while back did you complain and send it back? You're still welcome to return a lot of the free money and services you received when things were going well.
Or did you come to this province because of the resource money being spent by the previous regime?
Fyi there is money in the heritage fund in the billions which will be spent by your current regime.
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Wait was I supposed to demand an increase in tax? Were we supposed to march to parliament protesting low taxes? It's up to the party in control to make the tough choices. To prepare for the rainy days. They were just riding the wave like the rest of us brain dead fools who thought we could be the lowest taxed district in the country forever and that the ride would never end.
bw I came to this province when I was 3 and no one was coming here so don't look at me.
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Originally Posted by ken0042
I doubt Polak was old enough to get one. That was over 10 years ago.
My point being- long enough ago that it shouldn't have much bearing on today's government's decisions.
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I got one. I was 15. It's sitting in my living room in the form of a guitar.
I never mentioned Ralph bucks. My whole point was that assuming you will always be operating in the lowest taxed jurisdiction in the country isn't a sustainable business model, especially when your economy is commodity based. Maybe it's just me but if I was running a business in Calgary as my sole source of income I'd sure as hell make sure it was sustainable at average Canadian tax levels at minimum.