PST- the Political Suicide Tax
Updated 12 October 2022
Above- Interview with Bob Ascah- Mornings 630 CHED- Provincial Sales Tax- 11 October 2022.
The following article is reprinted with permission of The Conversation (link to article here) which was published Tuesday, 4 October 2022.
In this article I make the now familiar plea to Alberta politicians to stop the roller coaster of provincial finances by bringing in a provincial sales tax. As the article explains Albertans have become used to paying low taxes while enjoying good or in some cases superior public goods and services than other provinces' citizens. However the "Alberta Tax Advantage" has a darker side. It has produced a hard core of politicians, business groups. and citizens who hate taxes, especially a sales tax. This type of magical thinking has produced...