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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Paying for operating costs with borrowed money is reckless. But so was more than a decade of paying for operating costs with energy royalty windfalls.
Albertans are like a seven-year-old who still breast feeds. Time to grow up and decide what level of public services we're willing to fund and fund them the way every other constituency in the modern world does - through income taxes and sales taxes.
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Usually agree with you virtually all the time and even here, the sentiment I think you're right in that Albertans will be facing some tough decisions for our standard of living here in the medium to long-term BUT-
We still have not seen what the finances can look like with a polishing of the administration of major public groups in education and health care. There's some serious organizational evaluation that needs to be made by our government and I am not even talking the front line here. I would feel completely comfortable with a PST, with increased costs and decreased standard of living if our government had actually grown a pair of balls and made the tough choices that everybody knows needs to be made.