Nelson: Saying no to sales tax is Alberta's last stand abpoli
More than you might imagine. Those varied locations all involved desperate last stands, which is what we’re currently engaged in, fighting off the relentless rumblings from elitist, high-foreheads who think it a wonderful and worthy idea to impose a provincial sales tax upon us.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
We can’t do much about that federal sales tax — though Premier Danielle Smith might have some plot to alter that — but we sure as heck can do something to retain what remains as the final, genuine Alberta Advantage. Let’s simply demand, from both those UCP and NDP wannabes, a pledge before each election to not impose such a levy until the sun decides to rise in the west or we vote to do so in a provincewide referendum. “Would you like to give the government more of your money?” would seem a straightforward enough question on any future ballot form, don’t you think?
We know in our bones what would happen with such a tax, despite the silly claims about it solving all our fiscal problems by smoothing out those booms and busts synonymous with Alberta. To satisfy our suspicious nature, we need simply look to the other provinces and judge if the various sales taxes resulted in a land of ever-bountiful balanced budgets and a no-debt existence.
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