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Originally Posted by SeeGeeWhy
I am sick of this argument. People are missing the point fighting over scraps. More money in the system will not solve our problems.
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What will solve our problems? More money seems to work for most corporations...it seems to me that I need more money to buy a nicer car or a bigger house, or new clothes etc. etc....what is needed to ensure that we have more doctors to reduce waiting times? What is needed to ensure that we have more teachers to reduce classroom sizes? What is needed to ensure that we can improve infrastructure, build schools, provide more mass transit, reduce the cost of post-secondary education to an affordable level. I love when right wingers say that more money will not solve the problem. What will solve the problem, what is the neo-conservative solution to these problems?
I live in Canmore, and each night 100 dollars is donated per goal scored by the local boys to the local hospital to buy needles, sheets etc. I always laugh, only in Alberta would we have sponsors for needles, bake sales for textbooks...but god forbid we raise the royalty rates so that they are somewhere in the middle of the pack in the Western world. If we had the same royalty rates as Texas, that bastion of socialism, we would have an extra 2 billion dollars in the government coffers. I think that is the least we can do....