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Originally Posted by Rerun
You provide for it in the budget, using your best guess on the future.. All budgets are uncertain... they are best guess scenarios.
I just hate when parties base their budgets on totally out to lunch, extremely conservative revenue predictions. Government is like anyone else... if they have the money they'll find ways to spend it.
How may times have you (not necessarily you... but everyone) worked in a dept for a company/government and you were allocated x number of $$$ to run the dept and at the end of the year you still had $$$ left over so the dept was looking for ways to spend the $$$ because if they didn't their budgets would be reduced next year. Usually the surplus was spent foolishly.
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Oil is just far to volatile a commodity to be able to properly guess its value. One event could send the price skyrocketing and one event could send the price plumetting. Add in those damned speculators and there are too many variables that can affect the price.