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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
If there was a nice linear continuum of more money spent = More and better services that are valued by the population then this post would be a nice criticism of Albertans who are annoyed with increasing spending but also want good services.
Bottom line is the province is already spending on an unreasonable scale without seeing a resultant benefit of greater services or quality of services compared to other provinces. A 5.6% increase in spending on top of that in a year when inflation has been the lowest in quite some time is unacceptable. I don't think it would be unreasonable to suggest that in the long run the government should be able to provide the same level of service for less money than today (inflation/population adjusted of course).
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How do we even know that other provinces are better run?
Let's say that Alberta's government is 20% worse at doing stuff in general than the best province. So we'll knock 20% off costs due to "efficiencies". This is truly a best case scenario.
We have no sales tax. We dropped the health care premium. We lowered royalty rates. We have one of the lowest personal income tax rates. Dividend tax rates are incredibly low as well.
Something has to give.