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Originally Posted by Wolven
I like what you are saying... but before we look at PST to tax the people of Alberta, the province needs to reverse the corporate tax cuts that have happened under the UCP. Kenney left over $4B in revenue on the table with his tax cuts to corporations and then Smith doubled down on it.
These corporations have done nothing to help Alberta, even with all of the bending over the UCP has done for them. All they have done is put that money in their pockets and then continued to lay off thousands of Albertans.
Tax the corporations, use the money to support the people or drive more investment into industry diversification so that Alberta is not left holding the bag when the bottom falls out on the O&G industry.
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I would also argue that before any pst we should be looking at a much more robust and stratified income tax, if you can't afford to least tax at the average level for income than you have no place hitting low income people with regressive sales taxes. And I would say a decent sized hospitality tax too before the pat, it might not be as big, but at least that would create revenue from outside for the province, instead of just shuffling money around.