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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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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.