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Originally Posted by DJones
No one raises taxes on poor people. It's not worth the effort. If you make 60k, you pay 5% income taxes to Alberta. There's nothing to cut, a PST would be no different.
Exempt food, utilities, and housing/rent. A rebate wouldn't even be necessary. Maybe if you tax utilities and insurance they get a refund.
The whole point of a PST is to tax corporations more on their activities.
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Adding a PST can be made politically survivable and less detrimental to the economy if there is a corresponding reduction in tax burden elsewhere such as raising the basic personal exemption.
Also, I would think that in a jurisdiction with a massive tourism industry that part of the point of a PST is you get to collect significant money from visitors in addition to your own taxpayers.