Comment 83458

By viennacafe (registered) | Posted December 04, 2012 at 20:05:08 in reply to Comment 83443

I don't know if you were at the talk, but the speaker indicated quite the opposite. Petro-states tend to be low tax regimes which cut services and become dependent on the revenues of the extracted resource. Or, as the speaker put it several times for emphasis, "no representation without taxation."

As well, while some jobs are created, more jobs are lost creating a more unequal society which is referenced as the Dutch Disease. And in Canada we now see the Harper government loosening rules around foreign temporary workers to further drive down the wages and working conditions of Canadians including those in the tar sands.

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