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For discussion:

The Real Culprits?

Time for Tories to look in the mirror!

http://www.betterwayalberta.ca/the-real-culprit

What’s really behind Alberta’s sinking budget?

For the past 20 years, successive Progressive Conservative governments have introduced and maintained an array of irresponsible tax and royalty cuts that have blown holes in the revenue base we need to fund important public services like education and health care.

The Alberta government’s rock-bottom tax on corporate profits; its flat-tax giveaway to the wealthy and its penny-on-the-dollar oil royalties have made it difficult for us to fund even middle-of-the-road services.

This was true even when oil was trading at more than $100 a barrel. Now that the price of oil has been cut in half, it’s impossible to ignore the damage caused by years and years of irresponsible tax and royalty cuts.