UCP budget a mismanagement of public funds
By Lethbridge Herald on April 14, 2023.
Editor:
The United Conservative Party (UCP) has embarked on an epic waste of taxpayer’s money. Anyone who pays taxes should be up in arms over the Alberta government’s new advertising campaign called Budget 2023.
While spending millions of dollars on an information campaign, for which there is no need or demand, is a gross mismanagement of our public funds, there’s a worse reason behind this campaign besides simple incompetence. While the citizens of Alberta don’t benefit from this advertising blitz, that repeats something they can easily look up online if they’re so inclined, there is someone who benefits greatly.
There’s a provincial election about to take place where one of the parties will be running on a platform of Budget 2023. That entity is the UCP. This campaign is a partisan spending spree on behalf of the United Conservative Party. Anyone with a moral compass should be up in arms over the use of public dollars for what amounts to election advertising for the UCP.
In mailouts, on radio, on TV, the UCP are making vague claims about the wonders of their budget, using partisan colours. To be sure, the shade of blue is slightly different, no doubt to give their lawyers something to defend. “Creates jobs” postcards litter my mailbox.
No study is quoted to back up that claim. Would the contractor doing a government project be otherwise unemployed, or would they just be working on something else?
Would workers move from a different job, or would a job employ someone who was not working at all? Previous party claims that corporate tax cuts create jobs were proven false.
Yes, the UCP are good fiscal managers.
Not for the public, but, it seems, for finding ways to direct your money to their own party. For the rest of us, it might be better if Budget 2023 was managed by a different set of hands.
Tom Moffatt
Lethbridge
12-11
Your friends at the NDP leaving a 90 billion dollar debt and a decimated downtown through the SCS is the mismanagement of public funds. We all pay through the nose for THAT mismanagement.
There is going to have to be a lot of independent fact checking this election buckwheat. Your 90 mil debt and the millions into the SCS are spot on.
It all makes sense when you realize the UCP is doing a great job serving the people who put them in power. It just so happens that isn’t us, it’s multinational corporations trying to extract as much as they can out of Alberta and leave us holding the bag.
No doubt the NDP made some major missteps, but I’d rather someone who messes up from time to time while trying to improve the province, than someone who is very good at helping the people taking advantage of us.
on the nose!
yes the ucp rips us off. but show us a govt that has not lined pockets and served mostly the corporate pig. keep casting a vote for a party – and you will keep getting the sleaze you vote for.
god forbid that a govt should spend public money on the public good!
I would take issue with the writer’s statement that lowering corporate taxes do not result in higher investment rates and increased employment. This is a very old argument from socialists , however , many studies have shown that industries are indeed attracted by lower rates of corporate taxes. Such incentives are used all over the world.
…to line the pockets of CEOs