It's times like this that really reveal peoples' ability to look at a problem rationally and critically.  Time and time again, economies like Alberta's and Saskatchewan's prove that a balanced approach is necessary - that means revenues as well as spending.

Wall's increasing of the provincial sales tax should be proof, once and for all, to the right-wing zealots in Alberta, that it is literally impossible going forward to sustain Alberta's "advantage" AND provide the necessary services required in a modern society.

While it's completely fair to discuss trimming and cutting areas of government spending that are expendable (e.g. the "communications" and PR behemoth entrenched by the Klein regime), and it's equally fair to claim that the Notley government has been too quick with things like the minimum wage and carbon tax, it's also high time Albertans stopped being those people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.