Government passes bill to establish Saskatchewan Revenue Agency

[newguy]

Think about it for a minute.Who can Moe do a huge tax grab on and not lose 1 vote.? Corporate farms.look out Angry Moe wants a piece of your pie.Oil companies are paying for all his ads so he does not want to disrupt his cash cow.

[jensend]

Moe wants another bureaucracy the miniscule population of the province can't afford or justify.

[newguy]

Moe wants another bureaucracy the miniscule population of the province can't afford or justify.

How can fiscal conservatives think this is OK? Think the conservatives are wrong going away from aparty known as financially responsible.

[WiltonRanch]

You lefty folks here’s my tiny 🎻. Same old rhetoric same old modus operandi. I just hope if another conservative government is elected federally that our provincial government sticks to this as well as establishing a provincial police force. The less you depend on the Feds to manage your affairs the less influence they have. The CCF of my grandpas era would be rolling in their graves if they seen what democratic socialism has evolved into.

[TSIPP]

I was never really a Moe fan but I’m kinda warming up to him. The feds can just bugger off!

[TSIPP]

I guess I’m not the only one thats angered about Saskatchewan being treated like an abused spouse!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I have had some conversations with our MLA about the leverage they have against Ottawa, and how it can and is being used.
These moves all makes perfect sense when you have the context.
Unfortunately, they have not made any successful effort to educate the electorate about the closed door machinations between Ottawa and the provinces on these issues.
So the electorate just thinks this is an additional tax, or they are going to lose their CPP, or eliminating the RCMP will cost more etc.
The reason these and similar issues are being trotted out precisely is because these are the issues where the provinces have autonomy, and under the current system, we fund a disproportionate amount of the federal total. Hence threatening to change these programs gives the provinces great leverage in all other programs where we may not have the same legislative jurisdiction.

But judging by the predictable responses by the left on here, even if this was explained clearly, this is clearly far beyond their pay grade anyways.

[jazz]

By my calculations, Alberta and Sask could easily go it alone without federal transfers using their own surpluses and equalization contributions to fund their own health care systems.

[newguy]

By my calculations, Alberta and Sask could easily go it alone without federal transfers using their own surpluses and equalization contributions to fund their own health care systems.

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Could your area go on without the transfer of money from other areas of sask.what resources do you have in your RM?

[WiltonRanch]

Could your area go on without the transfer of money from other areas of sask.what resources do you have in your RM?

Should rename yourself strawguy cause you’re using a straw man argument here. Aside from a few dyed in the wool ones no one trusts the federal government and any way we can distance ourselves from that mess the better. If you like your bread and circuses be my guest but otherwise your views are becoming the minority out west.