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Originally Posted by Slava
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.
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The only thing I could think of was that it says the Feds get to collect interest on the amount of Provincial income tax it keeps before redistributing to the provinces. It seems like alot to me though.
I dont mind the idea, but it just seems to smack of populism with little upside, and picking a fight with the Feds. Its as clear as day that ABP is targeting waffling UCP voters.