Budget falls short of addressing province’s issues: Feist
While reaction to yesterday’s provincial budget has been mixed, a local member of the provincial NDP executive feels the budget fell far short of addressing many issues the province is facing.
Rob Feist told battlefordsNOW he saw very few positives with the document tabled by Finance Minister Donna Harpauer Tuesday in the legislature.
“I guess if I can take anything positive out of the budget, [it] was that the SaskParty did not double down on tax increases from 2018,” he said. “We are still in a province where they shifted the tax burden from out-of-province corporations and the wealthy onto the working and middle class.”
In the upcoming fiscal year, the province is projecting a $2.3 billion deficit, which Feist said totally unacceptable.