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Originally Posted by belsarius
Insurance rates, tuition costs, user fees, removal of electricity cap, de-indexing tax brackets, de-indexing AISH to name a few. All of these increased before the current inflation issue
And it's not like taxes have gone down, most Albertans are paying more tax now since the deindexing of the personal amount (not that it's significant, but it exists).
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Don't forget they increased the provincial share of property taxes; basically just an end run-around provincial tax increase that municipalities took the blame for, because it forced municipalities to increase property tax rates just to keep their own funding constant.
Oh, and on top of that the province cut police funding to the municipalities, so they had to raise property taxes to pick up that tax burden. Again, something the municipalities took the blame for even though it was the province clawing back funding that caused it.