Budget 2017

[sofa.king]

They stuck it to ag pretty hard. Hope they remember when they want me to renew membership or when I get another email asking for money they gouged ag.

[oneoff]

Well Wall did encourage the past big boom of of our resources pretty hard. We paid for infrastructure that everyone wanted; and now the P3's and maintenance will probably go on for ever.

The provincial government just didn't collect the royalties on oil and potash that could easily have been paid when there were gobs of money being made.

Perhaps an opportunity fully squandered.

Its going to hurt farners and as usual there are few ways to pass the costs along like other industries are set up to do.

And the sad part is that were're no where out of the woods yet.

On the Federal front did anyone hear a peep about carbon taxes. Sure doesn't look like renewable energy will be correlated with deficits.

[Richard5]

Kinda glad they axed the gas tax bs. No more fuel rebate form to fill out anymore unless we now have to for diesel

The gas tax thing was maybe more important 25 years ago but today, not significant. This will clean up the abuse of the tax free gas used for everything but business

Not an extra cost to me at all. Always filled up at pumps for personal use anyway. At least now I can fill up at home all the time.

[bgmb]

Holy shit, Bad news Wall is sticking it to "His Farmers". even ndp in MB didnt raise taxes on farmers that much. Mind you they did cap our farmland school tax rebate at 5k.

If I was a sask farmer I would be pissed these are taxes increases aimed directly at farmers.

[mcfarms]

THey are finally twigging in to the fact that unlike other industries we just cant pick up and move to lower taxed jurisdictions so easily. It will get a lot worse.

[SASKFARMER3]

I don't know boys I just renewed my membership both federally with the conservatives and just now for Brad.

If any of you believe the NDP or the liberals would of done better I tell you hey would of done shit all. Make you feel good it's just debt till you wake up one day and realize your Alberta with no way back.

[Partners]

We just thought they would not make the farmers pay or loose the most.
That's a ndp thing.

[sofa.king]

Why hit ag so hard I can understand fuel tax on gas but why not add 2% to the pst and that would have been better should have gutted civil service and not dropped income tax 0.5% I'm sure that would have been more fair.

[iceman]

Whoever gives the most saves the most with this government. Look no further than the oil royalties being left unchanged. Even a cancelling of some of the royalty holidays.

Oh never mind this government can be bought so don't touch them.

Nothing to see here folks

Iceman Out

[jake550]

Adding PST to insurance premiums is a huge increase in costs for many businesses including farmers.
Does that apply to crop insurance I wonder?
The more I look at this budget the more ticked off I'm getting about it and the attack on farmers.
Only thing positive I can say is at least Wall is trying to get the budget within reason where others just seem to think a bigger than ever deficit and debt is ok.