Premier Brad Wall says Saskatchewan deficit will be higher than forecast

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Show a profit and you have to ship more cash east in the equalization payments. Now is the time to overspend rather than under spend.

After decades upon decades of Eastern taxpayers shipping trainloads if cash to poor, starving Saskatchewan, that statement is truly shameful.
 

Ron in Regina

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After decades upon decades of Eastern taxpayers shipping trainloads if cash to poor, starving Saskatchewan, that statement is truly shameful.

Yep....yep....this is now:



After decades upon decades of Eastern taxpayers shipping trainloads if cash to poor, starving Saskatchewan, that statement is truly shameful.

...And this is the total from the beginning of the program:



After decades upon decades of Eastern taxpayers shipping trainloads if cash to poor, starving Saskatchewan, that statement is truly shameful.

How, Uhmmm....How do you explain this is light of your statement?

Maybe you should be looking to the East, and not the West,
in order for your statement to be credible, and not look like
a fool. Look at your closest neighbour to your East.

Now add together the three most Western Provinces in the
country and compare that total to other individual jurisdictions.
Interesting, Eh?

After decades upon decades of Eastern taxpayers shipping trainloads if cash to poor, starving Saskatchewan, that statement is truly shameful.


....At that time, Doherty said the province was expecting a $427-million deficit and aiming for a $259-million deficit in the 2016-17 budget coming in June...

After decades upon decades of Eastern taxpayers shipping trainloads if cash to poor, starving Saskatchewan, that statement is truly shameful.

And yet, Saskatchewan will pay out to Equilization 1/2 a Billion
this next go round, and receive nothing back out of it, and that
number is larger than it's predicted deficit.

After decades upon decades of Eastern taxpayers shipping trainloads if cash to poor, starving Saskatchewan, that statement is truly shameful.
 

MHz

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That totals about $400B, is there a chart that show the amount each Province has donated) Are there any programs in place to help the welfare Provinces become self sufficient?
From where I sit one Province is worse off than all the rest combined and they are probably doing the least to 'fix it' considering the yearly windfall it brings. AB can invest in hardware rather than it being a cash award which is probably is today.
Perhaps JT is telling AB that she needs to pull in the teats and concentrate on getting pipelines to the areas of Canada that would suffer a hardship should importing become something that is no longer a viable option.
 

Ron in Regina

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Which one province is 'worse off' than than all the rest of the
others combined? How is this one province worse off?

Oh yeah, you want a chart or graph? Google is your friend.



Is this the province that you think is 'worse off' than all the
rest of the others combined? How is this one province
worse off?
 
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Ron in Regina

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Ron in Regina

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This Thread got quiet really fast. Can't quite hear the crickets yet...

After decades upon decades of Eastern taxpayers shipping trainloads if cash to poor, starving Saskatchewan, that statement is truly shameful.

Look at things in this light, & I know this is oversimplifying things:



What Alberta pays in, Quebec receives. They cancel each other
out in an ugly 'Equalization' balance. Then look at the remainder.

After decades upon decades of Eastern taxpayers shipping trainloads if cash to poor, starving Saskatchewan, that statement is truly shameful.

Hmmmm.....Ok, going forward, I've a question for you. Has
'starving Saskatchewan' payed more into Equalization than
it has received? Will it? For the 8 Billion it has received, how
much has it paid out in just the last couple of years alone
without receiving anything back from this fund? The numbers
are out there to either support or crush your statement.

After decades upon decades of Eastern taxpayers shipping trainloads if cash to poor, starving Saskatchewan, that statement is truly shameful.

This statement is truly shameful.
 

petros

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Flossbag doesn't remember the hand wringing of last year's fires causing this year's deficit.

He was giddy about it.
 

Ron in Regina

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That's a big part of it! I remember thinking at the time that
dude was coming across like he was "feeling funny in his
pants"
over the north of Saskatchewan burning. I thought
it weird at the time, but see it every time he posts anything
about the western provinces.
 

petros

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That's a big part of it! I remember thinking at the time that
dude was coming across like he was "feeling funny in his
pants"
over the north of Saskatchewan burning. I thought
it weird at the time, but see it every time he posts anything
about the western provinces.

And yet he lives with his bro because the wife ditched him for being a drugged out loser who can't provide for her or the kids.
 

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Anyway, please excuse my injection of reality. Back to
bashing Saskatchewan specifically and the West in
general. Carry on in the spirit of the thread.

I get it Ron, and am right with you.

The voluntary blindness of some in deciding to shoot the goose that lays the golden egg and then wondering why things are in the sh*tter is beyond the pale.

It's really tough to understand the logic... I guess that all you can really do is laugh