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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
What. You mean you can't hike taxes indescriminately?
Good thing the city of Calgary is immune to such economic forces. 
You could argue the money will eventually come back to Alberta. Though you never know. |
You can totally make that agrument. I think that investment will come back into alberta but at a much slower pace then when it was the "BEST" market to be in. A year is not long enough a time frame for good or bad assesment.
On draft day, you hear how good that first round pick is, Great stats, right size, natural ability. You see him a year later at the rookie camp playing against kids 3 years older and he looks terrible comapred to all the others. Were you lied to? Is he not as good as he was hyped to be. Do you dump him now or wait to see how your investment pans out?
I was all for the royalty increase, not to "GET MORE", but to slow the pace, and leave a little in the ground to create employment later. Granted I didn't know the world economy was gonna collapse, I did think thier numbers were complete junk and that the "investment" was gonna move elsewhere for now. It'll be back, slowly but surely and then the move will look like genious long after anyone who was involved with it is done..