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   Message 89,343 of 90,757   
   Dhu on Gate to politicosage   
   Re: Quebec balances budget!   
   27 Mar 15 21:02:31   
   
   XPost: can.politics, ab.poltiics   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:54:16 -0700, politicosage wrote:   
      
   >> On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:15:53 -0700, politicosage wrote:   
   >>> The biggest problem being the billions in transfer payments that Harper   
   >>> redirected from Ontario to Alberta.   
   >   
   > On 3/26/2015 7:33 PM, Dhu on Gate wrote:   
   >> Oh yah...  that must be why the Alberta Tories are gonna start charging   
   >> for Medicare again, eh?  All that free munney from Ontario.   Not.   
   >   
   > No amount of 'free money' (taxpayers of Canada) can make up for the stupid   
   > policies of a Conservative government that chose to live off the proceeds of   
   > oil extraction - instead of balancing their budgets with fairer tax rates and   
   > fees for services - that the rest of Canada was paying.   
      
   No the problem is that we are not charging FUCK ALL for our oil: Alberta   
   has the LOWEST ROYALTIES ON THE PLANET!  Lower that Texas or Alaska.   
   We also have just about the lowest corporate tax in the world.   
      
   Dhu   
      
      
      
   >   
   > Now that their 'golden egg' is cracked and leaking, they're having to adapt   
   to   
   > the ways of the rest of Canadians.   
   > Not too hard to figure out.  For 'some', anyway.   
      
      
      
      
      
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