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Originally Posted by Slava
Its definitely not good news, but lets say the Wildrose had won. Would the budget be in much better shape because while we would've held the line on spending or made some cuts, but they wouldn't have increased taxes either. In other words spending down from where we are and revenue down as well. So I don't know (and no one does), but it could well be a net zero kind of thing. I honestly don't think that any party could've balanced the budget at this point without some severe pain for all Albertans.
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why should that matter Slave? The Wildrose isn't the government, they're not running in an election right now, their job is to oppose the budget and point out the problems and shortfalls about it.
I doubt any government could balance the budget right now, that's a given, but at the same time, you can't go around spending like a drunken moron without balancing your spending with cuts. The Government is the biggest cost sink in the budget, especially when you look at the bloat and the poor delivery of service even though we pay a lot more per person for it then any other province.
The day and the age of the solutions being "Throw more money at it" are over, and the NDP is going to have to eventually piss off their voter base.