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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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Common that is not fair, with all due respect and i am sure you are a responsible civil servant in the municipal government, but the provincial government has had no significant opposition in years, they have enough power that should not be further enhanced by additional revenues from sales taxes.
The Calgary municipal council has many diverse political voices with provide checks and balances that prevent really negative fiscal abuse from occurring, that is why i have never really complained about my city taxes, it small enough to be visible and under control.
The province is a different story, it took me less then 10 seconds to find this, another silly waste of money:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01...ding-the-rink/
Complaints about government waste is not rhetoric, its real and it happens.