Reading Time: 3 minutes Deciding to push ahead with further spending increases and hope for revenues to fill the budget gap represents a failure to learn from the past
Tag: Alberta budget
Alberta NDP rejects prosperous polices of the Chretien era
Reading Time: 4 minutes Approach reminiscent of the failed deficit-reduction strategies of Alberta governments throughout the 1970s and 1980s
Getting the facts straight on Alberta independent school funding
Reading Time: 3 minutes The case for Alberta defunding independent schools is being made largely on the basis of mistaken analysis
Controlling compensation costs can help Alberta rein in spending
Reading Time: 3 minutes Enact measures linking the wages and benefits of government employees to similar positions in the private sector
Did the Alberta government really slow down spending growth?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recently released fiscal update shows program spending up nearly 10 per cent from last year’s level
Government’s spendthrift ways are burying Albertans in debt
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government’s claim that Alberta’s deficit is as big as it is because of forces outside of the province’s control is untrue
Alberta poised to outdo Ontario on budget deficits
Reading Time: 3 minutes The situation could even worsen if the province fails to deliver promised and long-overdue spending discipline in the years ahead
Alberta budget confirms ‘revenue recycling’ code for tax and spend
Reading Time: 3 minutes Any conceivable tax increase is revenue recycling if the money is used to fund anything the government deems an “investment” in Albertans
Notley government doubles down on spending, refuses to change course
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ignores root cause of Alberta’s deteriorating fiscal position – runaway spending
Notley budget ignores lessons from Alberta’s history
Reading Time: 3 minutes Don’t be reluctant to look to a Progressive Conservative government for an example of successful fiscal policy