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Originally Posted by DJones
What do you not think I understand? I understand that the feds control the majority of tax revenue. No one is arguing otherwise. The 1000s and 1000s of tax returns I've done make that very clear. You guys keep saying this or how you'll blow my mind but then never actually make a point. It's just you're greedy for not wanting to give so much money and power to Ottawa but then at the same time saying Alberta doesn't over contribute. So in that case it wouldn't be greedy I guess since we actually owe so much to the feds. They should thank us for taking over their spending.
I am saying I would flip the system and would remove them from the majority of non-federal concerns.
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I'm not looking to blow your mind. Others have explained how it works, but you keep insisting you know better. Higher tax revenue comes from high income earners contributing more, skewing per capita numbers. It's those earner's who's dollars go. Not Alberta. Not you, or me(unless, as I said, you are fortunate). Individual CANADIANS paying CANADIAN taxes. And they are only able to earn more hear because the magical luck of resource deposition. Not from working harder, or being better, or deserving it more.
You feel these extra dollars should come back, despite you never earning them. You haven't justified why it is a just and right reason, you just claim it is yours. It's not, it's Canadian who paid it, as per their responsibility as a citizen. It's no more your money than it is Alberta's.
Now, in the wacko world you imagine, their income will drop, for all the reasons everyone with a brain understands and has explained over and over(please don't make me do this again). So they'll be making less, meaning less tax income, but also because based on stated philosophies, Alberta will have an entirely flat tax, at a lower rate than federal. Good for those already well off, I guess. And why should it even go to you if it is made in Calgary and Ft McMurray? Isn't it more their money than yours? Why should Carstairs get an even cut? And why can't you see how stupid this all is? #### me.
Also, my previous post aobut MAID is EXACTLY why I want experts deciding #### in Ottawa, because this province is run by a bunch of feckless ####s who can't imagine the life situation of someone who isn't born on third base who has been gifted their positions in government, and make decisions based on thr stupid loudest voices in the province, who are also completly unqualified to draw conclusions about anything more complicated than an hour glass.