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Originally Posted by Makarov
Firstly, you don't "make transfer payments" to anyone.
Secondly, provincial spending and deficits have zero effect on the equalization program.
Your statement is therefore factually (and utterly) incorrect.
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If transfer payments didn't exist, there would be less need to tax in Alberta. Factual statement.
Transfer payments reduce the burden of receiving provinces to properly manage their budgets. No need to balance, because our transfer payment will help patch/delay the problem.
Quebec has absolutely disconnected from the reality that what they do has to be subsidized by outside sources. In the long run, free anything is taken for granted. It creates entitlement and doesn't properly prepare labour for competitive, free markets. When people who get things for free compete with others who have to work for it, I have my money on the latter every time.