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Originally Posted by woob
This is the conundrum Nenshi faces if he wins. I'm sure he recognizes Alberta can no longer be without a PST, but he'll get roasted for implementing one. So we get another four-year blip in the forever-conservative province, and any work he's done to improve things will get undone—or worse—when Alberta voters get mad and vote conservative again.
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I think if the best case scenario is the the Nenshi NDP get into power and implement a 5% PST. They likely get tossed afterward because they wouldn't run on that platform, but just like the increased personal tax rates, the next government would leave the PST in place. It took the NDP last time to get us off the flat 10% personal tax rate for all income brackets.
I also think a PST would be fine. The very lowest income families would receive a PST rebate similar to the GST rebate. The rest would just have to pay it to fund the hopefully best services in the country.