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Originally Posted by Tinordi
This kind of line of thinking just kills me. You do have a revenue problem, a very big one. You're using the rents from non-renewable resource development to fund general operations and entitlements.
So you're dependent on one industry, prone to boom and busts, for propping up the level of service your government provides. The problems with this type of model should be self-evident.
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Perhaps you misread the original quote. If you don't spend so much, there's no need to use resource revenue to fund spending.
I think that's the entire point, actually.