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Originally Posted by #-3
Bhhhhh bhh bhbhbbbhut the light bulbs.
#### off.
This list literally is enough money to wipe out this years deficit in 1 swoop, and would put us in a position structurally to have a smaller deficit next year, which Trump is going to fix for us on his own by starting wars in all of the oil producing countries through no contribution of Maralina.
I'm not a dyed in the wool fiscal hawk, governments should take shots at doing good things, but this government is ####ing stupid there is no other way around it.
The Tylenol is the perfect example, they were looking for a quick political win, so they paid a guy who didn't know what he was doing to sell them something he couldn't supply, just so they could hold a press conference saying they were smarter than the Canadian government. Yet all it did was prove they were dumber, the Canadian health agency understood safety approvals, they understood supply chain timelines, they understood that demand surge shortages are often fleeting, that the fix was on a timeline of a few weeks, not holding a press conference and announcing you spent a bunch of money fixing things today with an incomplete plan but very real spending.
The thing about the NDP policies, agree with them, disagree with them, they had a stated intent, and the achieved it. The light bulb program was a complete waste of money, but they wanted fewer incandescent bulbs in this province, they spent some money and it worked. While the UPC came out and wanted to say they are better at buying medicine for Albertans than Canada, it turned out they were wrong.
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Your list added up about 2.5 billion. The majority of which was the keystone gamble and 5 years ago. In retrospect sure, didn't work out but you just gotta do it. Like ####, we just spent 40 billion on a pipeline. If a billion gives a chance at a pipeline you gotta take it. If an Albertan government didn't take that bet I'd be mad. We'll probably spend a billion on the next BC pipeline just on permitting. If that only costs them a billion that would be a miracle, If they can get a route and permit and sell it to someone for a 5 billion loss I'd consider that a win. Hell, Notley gambled a billion on excess rail capacity that didn't end up being required. Similar idea, wasn't a great idea but I can't fault her for it, at the time I probably would have been tempted to do the same. I looked at it as a hedge.
The corporate tax cut is just blatantly untrue. ~90% of any corporate tax cut gets refunded to the province within 3-5 years. That's just how corporate taxes work.
I do not like any party, I find it mystifying why anyone would attach themselves to a team of these #######s haha. Yes, the Tylenol was stupid, no argument here, the private blood clinics was botched, sadly our governments are terrible at tendering bids. The renewable pause, terrible, any government that denies private investment in a useful industry is clearly in the wrong.
But like you realize the NDP spent $400 giving people power bars that shut off people TVs for them. I used mine for two days before I said #### that, took 10 seconds for my tv to turn on. That they didn't understand how our power contracts works and got sued for 2 billion when they broke said contracts in the coal shut down.
None of those things ultimately mattered. One bad natural disaster can wipe out all of those things. Thats why they have contingencies. Something is going to go wrong this year that costs 2-3 billion to Alberta. No idea what it'll be but its going to happen.