Opinion: Albertans face choice between service cuts or a sales tax

Alberta’s latest provincial budget is being judged by many, less for the things it did and more for what it didn’t do. It did not make any changes to the province’s tax system to raise more revenue, and it did not make massive cuts to public services to reduce spending. Instead, the budget forecasts an increasing reliance on non-renewable resource revenues with no real plan to ensure we have stable revenues in the future to protect and revitalize our public services.
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