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|    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.                                          --       Ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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