Keep talking, Brad.
Premier Wall, is a pretty good politician as well as an all around nice guy. Well, nice to most.
Saskatchewan’s budget last week was the polar opposite of the NDP budget in Alberta. Personally, I would have preferred an even more thrifty budget, but that really wasn’t in the cards.
No one got a break in Sask’s budget. In a nutshell: PST up a point, a Crown shut down, civil-servant wage rollbacks, rural libraries getting slammed, the cities losing money, farmers losing gas tax exemptions. Everyone is paying, but it’s short term pain for long term gain, a $B deficit is a far-cry from another $10B deficit in Alberta. Premier Wall previously paid down some 40% of the debt when times where good, he’s a nicer Ralph.
With every hard-luck budget comes the political price. The last thing Saskatchewan needs right now is an uptick the Sask NDP’s fortunes and the easiest way to do that is to shift attention west one province.
The implicit message is, “You really don’t want that to happen here, do you?”
No, Premier Wall, no we don’t.
That’s great. Now how about educating him on the non need for giant stinking fans.
Bingp!
Bingo!
So then … Saskatchewan has designs on becoming the “Texas” of Canada. It has worked beautifully for Texas. Good Move. Now … if we can only split California into two states …
All the major oils are leaving AB so why not Brad luring the rest to Sask?
I disagree. I think Wall has lost touch and given up that moderate middle ground that allowed him to appeal to both rural, towns, small cities and the bigger cities, conservatives and centrists, labor and business. I’d predict this budget and some of his other missteps will hurt his party in the next election. Saskatchewan has the second lowest debt to gdp ratio and significantly lower provincial pension obligations compared to other provinces. I suspect a big backlash from an unnecessarily harsh austerity budget. I’d bet he’s going to wish he’d have phased in these changes over more years. Personally I think this budget was ego driven. Wall’s personal pride about balanced budgets trumped everything else.
I do support getting rid of stc and upping the consumption tax. Since he was raising the pst anyway, He might as well have called it a temp carbon tax (pending legal proceedings). Consumption taxes are a fairly good proxy for CO2 due to manufacturing and transportation of consumer goods. Raising it up to 7% and dropping a lot of the nickel and dime to death fees increases, wage rollbacks (good luck) and other semi-hidden tax increases would have been preferable.
He sure has Nutley smoking from all her orifices, maybe she will self combust.
She is bleeding from her ……eyes…..she is bleeding from everywhere. -Donald j Trump
In response to the liberal megyn kelly , and now rachel nutley
Full socialism is an aberration in Alberta, it’s been a feature in Saskatchewan for the last 70 or so years. Don’t hold yer breath…
Consumption taxes are preferable to income taxes.
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here’s the biiger threat to canada…
When asked by a reporter if individuals expressing extremist views should be
allowed to continue working at our country’s airports, Trudeau said… “I think that’s
part of the kind of conversations we have to have as a society.”
what would nathan cirillo say?
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Premier Wall’s budget wasn’t even in the same time zone as draconian. Those who p*ss and moan over Wall’s attempts to reduce the deficit are uninformed, misinformed, just plain stupid or a toxic mixture of all three. A prime example is a close relative of mine who was extremely upset at the premier’s axing of STC. I informed her that STC had not shown a profit since 1979 and to continue to prop the company up made absolutely no sense, not unlike the classic definition of insanity. This was news to her since the news on the radio made no mention of the company’s unprofitability for the past 38 years. Strange that the media would choose not to include this little fact as the news readers criticized the budget.
Now a little advice for Premier Wall. Don’t get into a p*ssing contest with Notley. She is nothing more than a bitter, envious and totally inept one term socialist. You are better than this. Far better. If Notley insists on taking shots at Saskatchewan, simply consider the source and ignore the fool.
Should she self destruct one way or another, I will gladly pay back her Carbon Tax fees due to her self-combustion or whatever. Really, I will! Gladly!
Trudeau said… “I think that’s
part of the kind of conversations we have to have as a society.”
Translation: “The illegal muslime immigrants I’m letting into the country need jobs.”
If by the next elecction we can see a return to some degree of economic strength and Alberta is clearly in a death spiral all but the wack ball leftists will have forgotten the little bit of financial pain that we will all be suffering for the next while and Brad will be re-elected. We also need to remind everyone that if Harper had won then Canada wouldn’t be burdened with our ‘child wanna be king’ who is determined to drag the country down the same Wynne/Notley rat hole. That alone should make anyone with an operating brain cell rethink whether they want to turn this province back over to the socialists.
Although we may suffer a bit, thanks Mr. Wall for taking an unpopular but the right decision.
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“…immigrants I’m letting into the country need jobs.”
abdurahman abdi was here for 8 years and didn’t need a job…
What is known is that police responded to 911 calls reporting Abdi grabbing women’s breasts
inside a Hintonburg coffee shop. Once police arrived, they found Abdi. Police Chief Charles
Bordeleau said Monday that the man continued to be “assaultive.” He fled the area and
police pursued. He was physically taken down by officers some 270 metres away on Hilda Street.
Did the women in the coffee shop not deserve to be protected from Abdirahman Abdi?
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So he raised taxes?
Make Saskatchewan Great Again.
Wall is as much a fraud as Ralph Klein was. Raising taxes is the wrong thing to do.
How about cuts to the civil service and privatization of a whole host of things.
He’s not a conservative- never has been. And lance and many many others still haven’t figured that out.
Consumption taxes at low rates – 5% – work. But when they get near or above 10% more and more of the economy goes underground – just look at Greece and closer to home Newfoundland. High rates make criminals- tax cheats – of almost everyone with predictable consequences to societal morals.
SK now has gst+pst of 11% – watch for significant diminishing returns.
Don’t forget that “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian”.
WTF does your comment have to do with what I stated? Your comment is commonly called a Non Sequitur. I wouldn’t have given it a response if you hadn’t quoted me by only using the part of my statement that furthered your agenda. If you’re going to quote someone use their whole sentence; what you did was disingenuous at best.
Consumption taxes above 5% work only if income taxes are reduced by the same amount consumption taxes are increased.
I published this Open Letter To Brad Wall in December of last year and he didn’t listen.
http://www.poletical.com/open-letter-brad-wall-saskatchewan.php
He has created a host of enemies that need not have been created. Now we’re looking at an NDP government under what is likely to be a far left regime. Broten would have been a better replacement for Wall than some kind of Ryan Meili or whatever shows up as the next iteration of the NDP. Because of this petty and balanced obessed budget Saskatchewan is going to go back to the backwater of the 90’s in the next election.
Bad move.
That is not the case in many jurisdictions already. Cash and barter and understated value transactions rise the higher the rate is. North of 10 percent it accelerates. Obviously you have never lived in a jurisdiction where that is the case. I have – over time it is remarkable how much moves under the table including the purchase of new goods like cars and appliances where the settled sale price is barely above the cost – the remainder being paid in cash.