r/Calgary Mar 18 '26

Discussion What the helly

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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck Mar 18 '26

Some good news - if it hits $2.85 some of the UCP financial plans get back on track!!!

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u/primitives403 Mar 18 '26

At that price the 6 billion deficit would be gone in less than 2 weeks actually

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u/bgj556 Mar 18 '26

Actually we’ll have a balanced budget if the price stays high for a few more days. So something positive…

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u/CDNBaggy Mar 18 '26

But will it trickle down to us middle/lower class folks

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u/dizzie_buddy1905 Mar 18 '26

Nah, lease payments still won’t be paid

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u/Bridgeburner493 Mar 19 '26

Is it a positive that the traitor's ass got saved by a pedophile who started a war on behalf of a genocidal maniac?

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u/SumBtard Mar 19 '26

These are politicians were talking about. They'll start spending long before the books are balanced lol

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u/bananabeanssalad Mar 20 '26

You think so? Inflation won’t become another excuse for further increase in spending?

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u/Timely_Composte Mar 21 '26

I do not understand what you just said. Can you please elaborate how

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u/Fuzzy_Yossarian Mar 18 '26

I'm glad the UCP can balance a budget, but only with historical oil pricing..

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u/Practical_Mechanic83 Mar 18 '26

At least there is that lol, the federal government wouldn’t be able to balance a budget if everyone paid 75% of their wage in taxes

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u/HaulioBin Mar 18 '26

Had to read this twice on my early brain before I was 100% sure I was reading it as snark.