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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Hotels in Calgary are some of the most expensive in the country. I don’t know about you, but I would prefer my friends and family to be able to afford to visit once in a while (but I’m not so mental so as to want them to stay at my place), so no to increasing hotel tax.
As for PST versus income tax, a PST would be a regressive tax. Increase it 1% on the top three tax brackets, that should be enough. I say that as someone who would get ensnared in such an increase, and I’m okay with that.
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It's not though. If I recall correctly, 5% PST is something like 10 billion dollars. 1% on the top 3 tax brackets might be something like 50 million.
The issue is that there's just not enough rich people to tax to meet the scale of services we want.