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Originally Posted by Dion
A great example is the Carbon Tax. It was originally created to go towards green projects but now it goes into general revenue where she can spend it on whatever she wants. Some debt is fine but what she has done is ridiculous.
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At least they fixed that.
A Carbon tax as a slush fund to reduce CO2 is a recipe for boondoggles where the government picks losers. Ie 200 million to change light bulbs.
Putting in general revenues forces all programs to compete with each other for dollars. Ideally when the Carbon tax was implemented it should have been 100% rebated or other taxes lowered however Alberta has been under taxed relative to its service levels for quite some time.
Kenny is foolish to cut the Carbon tax. He should keep the revenue to balance the budget.