You're not feeling a sales tax in your circle? Get outta town.
Just like any major life change, there is no perfect time, and there's no sign it's going to get easier in the long run even if we keep kicking this down the road.
If you have to make a hard decision, you do it when times are good, so you can mitigate the damage to people and province when times are bad.
A sales tax can help fund operations, while royalty revenue can help pay back debt and fund the Heritage fund. Then when #### really hits the fan again, operations are sustained, and the larger population base year-over-year are contributing to keeping the lights on in this province.
Maybe instead they can bump corporate taxes back up too. But my guess is the UCP will never consider communist jockeying like that.
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