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Originally Posted by Slava
I don't think that fiscal conservatism is dead, and nor should it be. Eventually though the baby boomers and the entitled thinking is going to grind to a halt. When you look ahead a decade or so and see that about 3/10 people are going to be working and paying for the other 7....who are collecting CPP/OAS as well as using healthcare more and more you're likely to see a motivated group of voters who are not willing to maintain those programs.
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Yeah but the rules of math and our current birthrates suggest that those 3 votes against getting railed in taxes will get out voted by the 5 boomers and other elders that are pissed about not recieving the quantity and quality of entitlements they envisioned and were promised by previous Conservative, Liberal, and (shudder) impending NDP governments.
The only way to claw back entitlements is to not give them out in the first place or hack them to the bone before a majority of people get hooked by their tenticles. Which is why I'm voting CPC, because I believe them less when they talk about spending more on things.