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Originally Posted by peter12
Municipalities have to pay for services. How else would you prefer they do it? Especially in a place like Calgary which is essentially built around expensive, sprawling infrastructure.
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Federal redistribution is one thought.
Eliminate local and state/provincial taxes (sales, property, fees, etc), and just pay a federal tax (sales, income, etc). That federal tax collection is then redistributed equally to the other government entities on a per-capita basis.
To equalize things on the federal tax collection side, perhaps everyone pays a flat $2,000 in federal income taxes (so that there is no baseline exemption at all), and then an additional amount based on what your income is. There might be some wealth add-on tax if you have a certain amount of assets in the stock market, or if your property is valued at X or above, or the like.