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Old Posted Mar 24, 2017, 1:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Riverman View Post
That is exactly what they would run on and win.
Once a sales tax was in place, it would be nearly impossible to eliminate it unless there was a prolonged boom period where royalties soared. Alberta has grown by leaps and bounds, and something has to pay for all the necessities that come along with that.

Without a doubt PC/Wildrose would make a show of proposing to reduce a prospective sales tax from, say, 5% to 4% or whatever, but more than anything else they'd probably breathe a sigh of relief that the NDP took the political bullet for them by rolling it out in the first place.
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