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Originally Posted by Rerun
Fiscal responsibility is not spending more than your revenues and not leaving a massive debt for future generations.
The absolute last resort should be to raise taxes in order to increase revenues. We as Albertans should learn to live a little more frugally. Instead we are like the family that keeps piling debt onto their credit card in order to support a lifestyle that they really can't afford. Eventually that debt will have to be repaid and its our children and their children that will end up being stuck holding the bag.
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Right, but that horse is out of the barn. Obviously no one is happy the government dicked it up. But we are where we are now, might as well try and fix the problem rather than augment it, no?
Lifestyle we can't afford? We have a stunning infrastructure deficit (thanks Ralph), and a booming population. We should what...just do nothing? The cost to not to do these things in the present will only skyrocket in the future (not to mention the opportunity cost). Tax increases suck no doubt, but a small or moderate increase now sure beats a massive increase later. But again, people like you (older people, sorry no offense) don't give the slightest bit of a #### about 20 years from now, cause you'll be taking a dirt nap. So you'll be selfish to keep your taxes low now, cause you'll be dead by the time they'll skyrocket from not tackling issues now. The saying is simple: You gotta spend money to make money. Cutting alone will accomplish nothing at all.