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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
That's more a position statement than anything, but what particularly about it upsets you? I am curious. It would seem that the Alberta Party is demanding the same equitable treatment that Quebec would be receiving, plus the ability to collect and distribute the Alberta personal income tax portion within Alberta and without doing it directly through the Feds.
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It's not that it upsets me, it's just plainly pointless. The federal government collects the taxes, and we get that money back as a province. There's basically no cost for that, and no advantage to doing it ourselves.
And the Quebec scenario is interesting. They collect the GST for the feds, but they have a PST. Is the Alberta Party bringing one in and as a result bringing in that infrastructure as well? Otherwise what's the point?
So when they talk about all this money to build schools and hospitals, it sounds great. Only, there is no more money. Where would it come from? It's not like there's an $11bn drag on our taxes that the feds collect and funnel to Alberta. It's just made up.