Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · Jan 5 A little shameless soft-launch I've been working on a little hobby project over the break around the realities of Alberta Separation. Assuming the current state tax replication with @ABProsperity promise to end income tax, the budgetary impact would be $53.2bn or 72.4% loss.
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But just imagine! If conservatives didn’t spend all their time ranting about Ottawa and Quebec, their productivity would increase by like 1000% 😅
Revision (apologies React and D3 are a whole new thing and I had some groupings set wrong.
In real terms, a $53.2bn loss of op revenue from our current Provincial status to when we would be a "Country" is equivalent to our entire healthcare system... twice over. To match total revenue, proposed tax structures require us to nearly quadruple O&G Production overnight.
Whoa, whoa, WHOA. Are you telling me that the separatist faction hasn't actually done their due diligence and is in fact floating a proposal that falls somewhere between hypothetical fantasy and magic pixie acid trip? I am *shocked*.