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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago (11 children)

Right wing crap “think tank” and not a serious or credible source for anything.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (10 children)

Its not nonsense, Alberta gets 0$ in equalization payments most years. They also have a small population with extremely high corporate profits with high margins, so those corporations pay more taxes, regardless if it trickles down to workers or not. Also during a recession oil generally does okay, while other provinces are wiped out.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Alberta went for many years benefiting from equalization. Saskatchewan just recently became a 'have' province after spending decades as a have not. Yes, both provinces were sucking off Ontario's tit while they were scratching dirt trying to feed themselves, and there were no complaints then...but now, conveniently when oil oligarchs started deciding the politics of those two provinces, now they become ungrateful assholes who want to keep all their money and not help anyone else. Fuck you, I got mine. A tale as old as time.

We need to nationalize oil and gas and start a proper sovereign wealth fund. Get the private money (especially US) out of there. As soon as we do that I bet all this division would fizzle out.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Why nationalize only oil, why not manufacturing, mining, lumber, hydro, etc..?

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

Yes, to all strategic resources - hydro, oil water, telecom, probably even critical minerals.

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