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Originally Posted by Bunk
The "I don't trust the government to spend the money" crowd is interesting.
What you you have us do? Slash $7 billion from the budget? Not build any schools? Run deficits and pray oil goes back up?
Just empty rhetoric. There's not a single person in Alberta that doesn't want as efficient and effective a government as possible, but if people think there's $7 billion in fat just waiting to be trimmed and everything will be ok, they're fooling themselves. A realistic cost cutting measure would be targeted salary rollbacks, some wage freezes for a while, and let attrition shrink the public service a bit, but that won't come even close to closing a $7 billion budget gap.
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Where does the 7B amount come from? Why so much? How are we to justify it, we don't know where this cash is going.
The government is wasting money, that's not a revelation to anyone, I get that and I get that some is unavoidable. But when does it end? All we hear is let's pay up this time and we will be smarter next time, We never get smarter, we keep doing the same silly stuff. Same government, same mistakes.
And we also get that we have more people here to support, more roads etc, but does anyone ask where the revenues coming from all these new homes, new residents/taxpayers go? Each person moving here pays taxes. That is supposed to be a good thing. This is what every city wants, people moving in. Why is it that all we hear is how bad it is etc and how it has to cost everyone else more money? And we just blindly accept it. Time to start asking tough questions.