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Originally Posted by Jacks
That may be true but the majority of Albertans have voted for the most fiscally responsible party(s) available in almost every election since I can remember. So who do you blame? the voters or the government?
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Stop saying that, it isn't true.
They have voted for team blue because #### Trudeau's liberals.
Understand that using found money for 20% of your operating budget is borderline lunacy and nothing at all resembling responsibility. It is completely irresponsible.
It is irresponsible to sell profitable crown corps for short term budget injections to justify lowering taxes.
It is irresponsible to raid the heritage fund to pay for services and infrastructure that should be paid for them GH reasonable oevels of taxation.
It is irresponsible to offload significant financial obligations onto cities because they have disproportionately lower voting power to resist that burden.
All of these are just awful decisions and aren't informed by any kind of reasonable economic theory.
If they were justifiable then without the benefit if hindsight that's one thing, but to blindly continue to follow these types of policies years, decades, after they've been shown to sour the fruit, it is zealotry.