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Originally Posted by Rathji
I don't know, which is why I asked if there was some sort of index for these things that made them comparable. I am glad Universities debate Health Care, and the taxpayers federation are doing provincial comparisons, but unless there is some conclusion related to level of public service as a function of per captia dollars spent, it doesn't help you make your point. If there is such a stat or study that you could provide somewhere that shows that your claim that Alberta isn't efficient in this regard, then I would gladly change my position.
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There are several reports, as listed above.
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Even if there is, that doesn't change the fact that per captia spending by itself is a near meaningless stat by itself.
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This doesn't make sense at all. Any stat is meaningless by itself. Per capita spending shows exactly what is spent per capits. If it was meaningless, every province wouldn't track these things.
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I don't know, I don't live another province at the same time as being in Alberta, nor do I consume every single service that the province has to offer. No one does.
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Nope, but it's quite easy to compare them and see when Alberta is spending double what some other provinces are and getting similar or less bang for the buck it begs the question why are we spending so much?