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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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I think your reasoning is flawed beyond belief actually - because investing in infrastructure today is something that will be used during your children's and your children's children's future moreso than a tax break today will assist anyone but you. Not saying that I am in favour of massive tax increases but realistically they aren't the worst thing if the money is spent efficiently.
Also cutting salaries is much easier said than done - how do you propose to do that? If you cut nurse salaries for instance you are then in a position where more nurses leave the province and shortages are magnified leading to increased overtime and a further increase to costs.
I think that being selfish is hoarding everything for yourself not building projects for everyone.