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Originally Posted by DJones
Money and decision making obviously. Keeping all tax revenues and making all decisions would be a monumental benefit to Alberta.
Would Canada ever allow it to happen? Of course not and there's a 1000 ways Canada could make the smaller, surrounded country feel pain. The whole idea is based around Canada making a fair deal which they would obviously have no incentive to do. America is the wild card but in that case Alberta's voice is diluted even more so what's the point in switching?
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So Jeff Rath repeatedly tells everyone there will be no federal income tax anymore in his NewBerta...and you have noted above this idea that Alberta will get this benefit.
Similarly, the VALUE OF FREEDOM that the separatists rely on as their 'fully costed' financial plan (regardless of the billions of dollars it forgot to consider) talks about the net benefit to Alberta's revenues by not sending out so much in federal taxes and getting so little in return.
But here's the thing not enough people seem to take note of...
An end to Federal income taxes would leave the money in the accounts of those who sent the federal taxes to Ottawa. In other words, NewBerta would "keep" or "get back" $0.
Individual rich people, who pay large amounts of federal taxes would keep more riches, and NewBerta would have access to none of that money to pay for public services.
People who currently pay no federal taxes would keep the nothing they currently pay out, and would lose all federal benefits and program spending that helps them and live in a society that no longer taxes the rich people to pay for public services.
People who pay only small amounts of federal taxes would get to keep those small amounts but also lose their federal benefits and program spending and live in a society that no longer taxes the rich people to pay for public services.
So I can understand why a rich person would think this is a great idea...everyone else who supports separatism on the other hand seems to think the rich people would suddenly become communists and share their wealth equally with all fellow NewBertans? Am I missing something?