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Originally Posted by MBates
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.
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We are running a 10B deficit. Provincial debt is now 100B.
How do you justify adding a PST while making it revenue neutral at this point?
"honey, we are spending more money than we make. Im going to quit my 100k p/year job for this other 100k p/y job. that should help