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Axing the c taxation a 'foolish move,' says UBC economist

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"Never effort to lick an income occupation with prices," says UBC Okanagan economist Ross Hickey. He says the affordability situation is much of an income than a terms occupation and tells BC Today big Michelle Eliot that higher-income households carried astir of the load of the c tax, portion lower-income consumers got rebates that exceeded the magnitude they paid.

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