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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
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.
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That is exactly it, Revenue has and continues to grow faster than is prudent. The amount of money that we pull from revenue in Alberta is staggering and should be more than enough to augment taxes to maintain adequate government services and put money into a trust fund.
Tinordi, you seem to be arguing that we should save the resource revenue and run the government solely off of the tax base. This may well be a great plan but the fact is that none of the parties are proposing it. The Liberals want to increase taxes to balance the budget and provide additional services, the PC's want to maintain taxes and spending for now and the WRA wants to maintain taxes and slow the growth in spending putting money away for the future.
None of those ideas involve saving all of the resource revenues in fact the Wildrose is the only party who proposes saving some of it.