Rachel Notley is spending $9 million taxpayer dollars to sell the single largest tax hike in Alberta history to Alberta taxpayers. She’s using your own money to tell you she needs more of your money. I can’t even make this stuff up!
Notley spent $4.5 million on print, TV, radio and internet ads to promote her Climate Leadership Plan and carbon tax. But when Albertans didn’t fall for the green brainwashing, she doubled down, ordering another $4.5 million in advertising spending.
I’m old enough to remember when the NDP thought the wasting of taxpayer dollars on self promotion was a bad thing.
Do you remember those “Building Alberta” signs that polluted every single government funded transportation or infrastructure across the province during Alison Redford’s reign? They were awful, partisan, shameless and expensive. Everyone hated them - except the PCs.
Brian Mason was the leader of the NDP back then and he told the Edmonton Sun, "We deplore the waste of public money advertising Alison Redford”
Me too, Brian, me too.
But unlike Mason, I feel the same way about Rachel Notley spending money on advertising Rachel Notley.
Alberta having its own carbon tax makes it exempt to the federal one. I would rather see Alberta money stay in Alberta than go to Justin T hands.
So I say thank you notley for doing this and saving Alberta tax payers money and keeping it in Alberta.
What we need now is a tax revolt.
Stephan – I’m getting old – but I have been saying this since I first took an economics study in high school some 40 years ago!
We, as Canadians & Americans & the Free world have to STOP PAYING for our own oppression!!! We need to get as ugly towards them as they are to us. Income tax collection is still not a LEGAL practice in Canada ( the ratification of income tax has never happened – it still is in that temporary state) – so why do we allow the CRA to be as corrupt as the IRS in USA is? Income tax was a temporary measure to fund the war – way back when – but as addicts go – the government got addicted to that revenue & has made everyone believe they are obliged to pay it. There are many precedents that have been made where people have legally challenged the CRA and have won. And it can be done – the more the merrier!
That brings up Chartered Accountants – who are being given their “charter” by the CRA to make sure they thieve from us working people all the $$ the governments want. And TruDope, POS wants to make us pay WORLD taxes!!! .. hell we already are – look at the billions given to the UN – for WHAT?? The UN is made up of the most corrupt despots on earth and we are being forced to fund their bullshit!
Trudeau (aka Baby Doc), Wynne, and Notley: put them in a row boat and shove it off toward Cuba.
Whereby “the crowd had finally heard enough BS and turned on him, stormed the building and drove him off.” Unfortunately my suggestion that a mass of people do much the same, that is, surround the Alberta legislature and tell Notley and her crew of socialists to get out, gets little traction. I guess that is too ‘radical’ for conservatives.
Indeed. And yet, sadly the Wildrose Party which focuses on fiscal conservatism fails to understand that and that steps need to be taken to counteract that trend. While attending the rally on Friday I spoke to a few women behind me who disclosed their disappointment that their kids vote NDP.
I just hope the people in Windsor Ontario see just what the hell the NDP are all about and stop voting for this party every election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBrHOg2Ih4w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iH20Le8cWQ
He had a called a huge self-congratulatory rally and was in the midst of a fiery speech extolling the virtue of his leadership and the benefits thereof when the crowd had heard enough BS and turned on him, stormed the building and drove him off. They were living the reality of starvation and deprivation while he was telling them how good they had it and was promising them “sunny ways” ahead. Later he was captured, tried and executed.
The parallel I am drawing is that these deluded leaders believe their own press and assume that the plebeians do, too. They are over confident in their supposed broad-based appeal while living in their cloistered world of yes-men and enablers.. It is just so rewarding to watch the underlings turn on their betters and give them the drubbing they so richly deserve..