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Old 08-24-2016, 01:03 PM   #2951
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch View Post
If your going to do a provincial tax as a government or a carbon tax or an icrease in taxation, then you'd better find a way to bring spending under control.

But the pockets are only so deep in terms of taxation before you stagnate and kill your economy.
I agree. A PST is only palpable if there are actual, tangible initiatives to cut spending. This could include 5+% wage cuts to teachers, doctors and nurses (yes, front line workers too).

Not PST + "find inefficiencies and close loopholes." Or "management takes a wage freeze but we're unwilling to do anything else."

Either way the point is that there is no way out of htis without some painful decisions. Prentice tried - he tried to mitigate it with his health levy, increased taxes and cuts to spending.

Instead we voted in a group that somehow thought that budgets balance themselves if we just keep taxing the rich.
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