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Originally Posted by Skootenbeeten
The province has been booming for the better part of 15 years and the price of oil drops for what 4 months now and now we are in a "unprecedented fiscal hole". Do we as a province live pay cheque to pay cheque?
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Yes. Actually we live month to month as a province and at the end of the paycheque there is still month left. Its pretty pathetic, but people don't like bad news. When its election time and some talk about raising taxes to pay for everything there are others who say we can "trim the fat" and people would rather do that than pay more money. People vote with their wallet, so if one guy says he can solve everything and it won't cost more money, than no matter how stupid it is, that guy gets a lot of votes compared to the solution that costs people more money.