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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler

I am in a position where what happens to Big Oil (and the subcontractors) has absolutely no impact on me, and, if anything, a poor economy might benefit me (as in, relative to the norm). So, royalties, environment, etc doesn't bother me either way. The NDP bothers me because they will take a bunch more money from me personally and "re-invest" it in health, education and "Alberta", and what that "re-investment" will consist of is raises for teachers, nurses and public-sector workers, who are already the highest paid in the country. **** that. More money will not make anything better, unless you come up with something more creative than "more of the same" (more workers, higher salaries). Some of my best friends work for the Man, but, I am sorry, I have no wish to subsidize their incomes...

That makes sense, but it's worth considering that a big reason why the NDP are even a threat to form a government is because many Albertans have no wish to continue subsidizing high earners' incomes by blowing resource royalties and using deficit spending to keep tax rates artificially low.