Alberta budget

[JRSC00LUDE]

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Anytime the word "Government" is involved, any form of efficiency is thrown out the window.

Expanded on that for you.

[Cagare]

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Wife got a job at the CBE. They're horribly run. I can't even imagine the waste that goes on elsewhere.

That has to be one of the worst run school boards in the Country. They have already had their upper administration hollowed out twice by the Province in the past 20 years due to poor management?

They are part of the reason that the class size reduction funding hasn't been working. The trouble is the class size calculation is done by calculating the student/licensed teacher ratio, even if the licensed teacher is not in a classroom full time. CBE administration and other positions in the board are filled by licensed teachers, which get factored in that calculation.

Too many other issues to list there.

[RawB8figure]

I love how Nenshi complains about property tax going up under new provincial budget. Meanwhile property taxes have been rising every year under Nenshi(along with his salary). Nenshi is done son. Probably why he is begging to work with Trudeau. To me sounds like a bad idea to me.

[Misterman]

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Which would be ridiculous.

Alberta voting PC is like an abusive relationship. They just keep going back, no matter how hard they get hit.

Well what is the other choice? If you're on the street, you go back to the one that at least uses an open hand.

[Xtrema]

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“This is something that is fundamentally important to the return that all Albertans get for our energy resources,” Notley said in February when her government signed the three-year contracts to lease 4,000 rail cars from Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway.
But the provincial government is now saying those contracts will lose $1.8 billion and they want to sell them to the private sector. “The business case carried a number of risks and assumptions never adequately disclosed to Albertans,” the budget said.
https://business.financialpost.com/c...e-books-budget

I think NDP (Taxpayper) is paying for rail to get oil moving and hopefully royalty will cover rail cost and then some.

UCP use curtailment as a bargaining chip and hope private sector will buy those contract off the government at small discount (may be 1/2 price?) and just write the rest off into the deficit and said NDP wasted it.

Is my assessment on this correct?

[killramos]

Notley also massively overpaid for said contracts because she had no idea what she was doing and insisted on everything happening immediately. The contracts were underwater before the ink was dry.

[pheoxs]

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I think NDP (Taxpayper) is paying for rail to get oil moving and hopefully royalty will cover rail cost and then some.

UCP use curtailment as a bargaining chip and hope private sector will buy those contract off the government at small discount (may be 1/2 price?) and just write the rest off into the deficit and said NDP wasted it.

Is my assessment on this correct?

It's kind of funny. NDP sorta went trickledown style but without just giving companies cash.

The theory was subsidize the cost of getting oil to market, which lets comapnies product more oil and start new projects / hire more people. Gov't loses money on the contract but gains in jobs within the province and more royalties.

Then the UCP just slashes it and says its a waste of money but cuts taxes and hands out 3 times as much in tax cuts claiming it'll create jobs.

IMO NDP route was significantly better and its a shame this was cancelled, had they kept the contracts they could have eased curtailment which might've meant more companies spending a bit here. Instead they held curtailment and we see investment fleeing.

[Xtrema]

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IMO NDP route was significantly better and its a shame this was cancelled, had they kept the contracts they could have eased curtailment which might've meant more companies spending a bit here. Instead they held curtailment and we see investment fleeing.

I think NDP planned to lift curtailment this Dec vs UCP next Dec means more people loses jobs and rigs going south and may not come back.

I thought UCP was onboard with rail plan in Feb but then they are not when election comes around because you can't give NDP credits.

[pheoxs]

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I think NDP planned to lift curtailment this Dec vs UCP next Dec means more people loses jobs and rigs going south and may not come back.

I thought UCP was onboard with rail plan in Feb but then they are not when election comes around because you can't give NDP credits.

Thats the bullshit part. Cancel something that could've helped just because the wrong party did it.

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[ExtraSlow]

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It's hard to argue against a consumption tax from a "fiscal conservative" perspective. Doesn't penalize earning or saving.

More discussion Of PST in Alberta. I see it as inevitable.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/polit...d-849086b0d9a1