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Originally posted by MarchHare@Sep 18 2005, 09:18 PM
Fair enough, although I do get the distinct impression that many people really don't know how equalization works or why it exists.
Who, other than some journalists and political writers, is proposing that Alberta should share its surplus with the other provinces? Surely the federal government isn't making any such proposition. The money garnered by the Alberta government is their's to spend (or invest) as they see fit; I can't even think of any law on the book that would allow the fed to take a provincial government's money and redistribute it.
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Then we are in agreement, its Alberta’s money to spend it how it sees fit.
The argument seems to have boiled down to whether or not Alberta is greedy in not voluntarily sharing it's surplus. Not if it’s legal, plausible or even being seriously considered other than a few reporters, politicians or whatever…I think the biggest fear as an Alberta citizen is a return to such federal programs as the NEP.
There are some that believe we are all selfish here in Alberta for not redistributing the surplus and others that think we already pay as much in federal taxes or more, as any other Canadian and that's fine.