Well said. The royalty money ought to be described as a secret tax because it is not seen by the Alberta electorate as a tax. Imagine if every penny of royalty income was saved, and all government services paid for by other sources of income. This is the sort of trade-off between taxes and services most of the world´s citizens has to make.
It is not coincidence that Alberta has no consumption tax and collects such a large proportion of its revenue from royalties: the former is one of the most obvious taxes to the electorate, the latter one of the least.
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