What's with Alberta budget?

[sumdumguy]

It sounds quite unbelievable to imagine a
province that should be basking in wealth from
the sale of black gold is draining savings to make
ends kind of meet. Talk about management!

[bucket]

That is mismanagement.

[brian99]

It's all about buying the next election(in this case the last one). The entitlement generation is eating it up.

Redford doesn't care about deficits, jobs, schools, all that crap, as long as she wins the election in four years.

[ajl]

Alberta is not as wealthy as we think we are due to the fact
that our oil is cheap. The other problem is that REDford is
less qualified to be Alberta premier than Obama is to be POTUS.
She bought her job courtesy of the teachers union and now we
are beholden to the public sector unions.

[ColevilleH2S]

There is no easier time to do the right
thing with your budget than just after
an election. The pressure to buy votes
is lessened because the next one is 3 or
4 years away.

Apparently Redford and Horner think
doing the right thing means draining the
Heritage fund and going in debt.
Conservative my @$$.

If there is a good thing to say, at
least they got rid of the 6 cent diesel
subsidy.

[cottonpicken]

We are all greek now.

[SASKFARMER3]

Put in a Sales tax. Get their head out of their ASS and start running a province like it should be. Alberta has lost its shine.

[wilagro]

We don't need no stinkin' sales tax...bad enough that we have that !@#$% GST of Mulroney's era.

What's the point of prosperity if you tax it all away so politicians can spend/waste it for you?

Quit giving our resources away at fire-sale prices and the fiscal problem would disappear.

In this area alone we have had close to 100 new oil wells drilled and developed in the past year but it seems the only ones benefiting are the oil companies. One quarter not far from me has over twenty five storage tanks on it and from my window I can count fifteen on neighbours property. The roads are getting pounded to pieces from the tanker traffic...the oil companies do pay SOME for the damage but not near enough IMHO. Most of the oil from around here goes by tanker trailer to Hardisty and on to the USA by pipeline and some goes to the up-grader at Lloydminster.

[blackpowder]

Agree this time Will.
Except for the fact oil is world priced and can
simply stay in the ground.
Question. How many non value-adding
people/positions exist between gross and net?
Graft in the patch alone, would help the budget.
Freeloaders in our economy screw it up.
And yes it's hard watching it all from sidelines
without income from it.

[blackpowder]

agree on fuel rebate. it was a slap in face to all
wage earners. Wild Rose Ag Producers just lost
some credibility.
Get rid of Red ford and stop transfer payments to
Quebec.