Kris Sims: Budget Alberta is sweet and sour for taxpayers

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Albertans are getting a big tax cut. That’s the good news.

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Premier Danielle Smith is doing well on his promise to cut income impact for Albertans.

The government is cut the lowest tax rate by 10% up to 8% for the first $ 60,000.

That might sound winner but it is true money in your pocket.

Government estimation that will be spare media employer about $ 750 year. In a two-person work family, it’s more than $ 1,500 in your wallet.

Those savings cover more than one month value for a family of four or pay for a lease of a month for an apartment.

This tax cut is a big deal.

Now, about 40% of Albertans are broken. It is how many people are in $ 200 each month of not being able to make minimal payments on all their bills.

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While Albertans are better than most in Canada, thank you in the most heavy wages and not pst, that is always a lot of people at the shore of insolvency.

This tax cut will give people a little more than breathing.

Now, the bad news.

The alberta government Projecting a $ 5.2-billion deficit for this year and has no plan returned to the equilibrium for at least the next two years.

Connected, there is a first president donald, the cloud in the form of trump of the sticky uncertainty above the province. If Alberta shot with a fee on oil and gas heads to the south, that’s a big bite in the provisual of the province.

This means the alberta government will have a lot of money that comes. But instead of finding savings, the government decided to pass more money.

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When the hard times are ahead, you cut the unnecessary expenses and save, you have not Max out your credit card.

Alberta government pass $ 4 billion more in this budget that last year. That is more than one 8% increase in expense.

The province is just as long to stay in their new spending laws. The rules indicate the government can not increase the spend of inflation rate plus population growth from the previous year.

That the expensive grows the roof for this budget was 8.7%. The government has increased their total expense than 8.4% compared to the previous year’s balance.

Typically, that limit number of passing floats around 4% -5%. But since inflation has been higher than the snoop dogg the past few years, the government had a tall bar this budget year.

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And just recently.

If the government had tastes of last year to year’s levels, could have had a $ 1-Billion surplus and also gave Albertans our cut of task.

The government should find savings.

The CTF recommends in his or her ratio budget has to smell the welfare of the hazard, cancel their bullet train and prevents the funding of fried arts. He also needs to spend their ranks of a thousand bureaucrats with a microscope.

For example, taxpayers are going over $ 30 billion in the balance care in the balance, nearly half of the course of the province.

Alberta’s Health Services is the largest health bureaocracy in Canada.

Why is the case? Are you all of the government’s government employees, the nurses of the line, medical doctors and rehabilitation of rehabilitation?

Why AHS has 232 “Directors” on the provincial sunlist?

Are paid a average salary of $ 161.781 per year and the taxpayers of cost more than $ 137 million.

What do those directors do?

The income tax cut is a good news for taxpayers, but the government needs to cut and find their way to a balanced budget.

Kris Sims is the manager of Alberta for Canadian Contribus Federation

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