mattyaloo said:
bluealberta said:
Reverend Blair said:
Hey bub, wake up and smell the oil: we finance the WHOLE COUNTRY right now. And that INCLUDES lining your Liberal pals pockets.
Give it up, Matty. Blue tried that one a while back. Maybe he'll be kind enough to point you to the thread where he got handed his ass.
Plus, BC would go. Absolutely.
We have a fair number of BCers on here. Why don't you ask them what they think of your little separatiste scheme?
I did, remember? That's why you're yarking at me about this. I pointed some (not all) of the ongoing costs you plan to pay for with $20 billion a year. I was up to at least $50 billion when I quit.
Pretty easy to knock the payers when you are the recipients. And no one hands me my ass, especially you. My points were never refuted because they couldn't be, despite your efforts at spin. Matty has some good points.,
The total amount of revenue this fiscal year for the feds is abobut $200 Billion. So lib dude with his brilliant accounting figures AT LEAST $50 Billion or 1/4 of the entire federal budget goes toward providing services in Alberta!!! lol man...he smart!
What he forgets is that we would no longer have to pay Fed Income Tax to Canada, so all that revenue would stay in Alberta. The GST would obviously go, to be replaced? Maybe, maybe not. We already pay the feds a lot for the RCMP, so the cost of our own police force would be reduced. Regarding military, if we got one, would Canada want one too? Seriously, if we gave the US access to Cold Lake in return for their protection, I would support that.
So add on our transfer payments plus the federal income tax and the surpluses we have now, with the additional revenues the oilsands will bring in, yes, it is doable. Easy, no, but then Albertans have never backed down from a challenge, have they.