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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
Ignoring the facts that Wildrose isn't cutting public transportation spending and infrastructure spending is a rather small portion of provincial expenses (salaries being the number one), why is it ok to mortgage your childrens future to pay for infrastructure today? Are future needs not important as well? Who is going to pay for infastructure in greece now that they've exhausted their capacity to borrow?
I think your reasoning is rather selfish. We need to live withing our means today so that future generations are guaranteed to be able to make the same decisions.
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Why is it OK to mortgage your childrens future to keep taxes low today? Why are we using resource revenue for no other reason?
This frustrates me to no end! We have a one-time shot at this, and billions of dollars in revenue. Why won't someone step up and do the right thing here; increase taxes to pay for the services that people want. Instead this "no new taxes" line gets pointed to as "fiscally conservative". Heres the thing; there is no "conserving" going on!
Frankly, its the most selfish policy we could pursue. We have an embarassment of riches, and the only thing we can point to is that the same mediocre healthcare and education cost us less in taxes. We all know that we're behind in infrastructure (in terms of transportation, but have a look at the massive infrastructure deficit in the education system for a real eyeopener) and yet we continue to pursue this silly policy. This is where the vote buying takes place in Alberta; while we are quick to laugh at places like Ontario and Quebec with programs that eat their revenues we spend it on tax reduction instead.