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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Alberta voters are childish. It needed to be said.
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What did you expect? people to march on the legislature and demand higher taxes?
With the exception of a couple of blips the PC's had a stranglehold on government for over 40 years, we elect governments in the hopes that they will make the smart decisions and plan for the future. It's not like the PC's had to fear an election loss by making taxes a bit higher and saving money, most Albertans would have supported that and even if they didn't the opposition wanted to tax them more.
I place 90% of the blame on the PC's, they had no plan for what to do once the debt was paid off so they started throwing wads of cash at every problem they saw. Instead of spending every dollar we made we should have been building up the Heritage Fund so that when times are bad we had a nest egg rather than borrowing tens of billions of dollars like we will be in the next few years.