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Opinion: Funding Alberta’s long-promised tax cut through budget deficits unacceptable

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Lennie Kaplan : Premier Danielle Smith suggests giving Albertans a tax cut could require running a deficit in 2025-26 .

Kaplan : Alberta 's fiscal rules allow budget deficits when total ( 2025-26 ) budgeted revenues decline by $1 billion or more from the previous year ’s ( 2024-25 ) third-quarter revenue forecast.

Kaplan urges government to adopt a rigorous program and service transformation framework to guide the permanent spending adjustments needed to get off the energy price roller-coaster.

VR Score

76

Informative language

82

Neutral language

54

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

63

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not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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