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Originally Posted by zuluking
And this is what frustrates me and a lot of others. When it has been proven over and over that more money merely maintains the same level of mediocre health care and education, we would rather increase taxes to cover this expenditure rather than change the delivery model (because of the "private" bogeyman.)
"Fiscally conservative" also means providing services more efficiently in order to maintain fiscal control. You cannot have this debate without introducing the core issues of improving efficiency of delivering these services. Otherwise, there is no basis to introduce fiscal responsibility, because these things cost what they cost. Looking only at "no new taxes" or allocation of resource revenues to operational line items is not enough to determine whether a party can or cannot lay claim to the label of "fiscal conservative".
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You won't get disagreement from me on that point either. That argument falls apart for the Wildrose though when we have no idea what they would actually spend on anything; that is why a budget document is so necessary.
Before anyone tells me how impossible is, I would note that the Liberals managed to provide this before the election and I fully expect that the NDP will as well. Putting ideology and whether you agree with those budgets the reality is that if they can put this together then we should expect the same from a party that is planning on winning government.