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Originally Posted by GGG
People are over reacting to this with the whole no one will be able to afford heat or vegetables. It's essentially adding the PST. This tax increase isn't really that special compared to others
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I don't agree with you here on one significant point. A PST wouldn't apply on certain necessary goods (food being a major one). People are generally spending their discretionary funds and paying PST on those purchases. The carbon tax doesn't factor that in at all.
We know that between the agricultural use, and shipping/transport our food costs will rise here in Alberta. Then you have home heating. That's a big difference from the GST and HST in other provinces.
I would have been in favor of the PST because it's transparent and in my eyes a much fairer tax.