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Alberta separatists claim oil is the key to independence and they’re not gonna pay income tax. Wellllll Alberta made $22B from oil & gas royalties last year. Sounds like the industry is carrying the whole province, right?Here’s what they don’t tell you. Income taxes brought in $24.2B. Regular Albertans and businesses quietly out-contributed the oilpatch. And oil isn’t stable. In 2015 when prices tanked, resource revenue collapsed to $2.8B. The province ran deficits almost every year from 2008 to 2022. Next year, with oil forecast lower, resource revenue is projected to drop to $13.2B while income tax stays steady near $24B. So when someone tells you we can’t afford to question the oil industry, or that pipelines and royalty breaks are non-negotiable because oil funds everything, ask them this: Why does a province sitting on one of the world’s largest energy reserves keep going broke every time the price of a barrel moves? The industry is important. Nobody’s denying that. But it’s a volatile. Alberta has been using boom revenues to avoid hard conversations instead of building something durable.

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