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Originally Posted by Locke
Probably Carbon Tax.
I'm also curious as to why someone would think that a Province thats running a Budget Surplus would need a Sales Tax.
Especially considering that it would just make basic goods even more expensive.
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The surplus only exists because of resource revenues, and we know exactly what happens when those come back to Earth. We've been through this over and over. The surplus should be used to funnel craploads of cash into our medical system to fix the systemic issues that have caused it to be a money pit. This may sound counter-intuitive, but we need to spend lots of money to be able to run the system efficiently. As it exists that is impossible, and trickling little fixes here and there just dooms us to future failure.
Anyway, back to the PST. This needs to exist to have a stable revenue source for the future, as every other province has. It's credulous to depend on this boom bust unending chaos. We've been at it for a good 320 years, we really need to see more of it to decide it doesn't work?