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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
Labour costs and material costs likely have doubled in the past 10 years actually, I don't have the stats and I don't know where I would get them but the average salary in Alberta has skyrocketed as a result of the prosperity and I doubt that is going to change anytime soon.
How does spreading out the cost over multiple years reduce the cost? Now I am not saying build everything for everyone but to blindly hack and slash programs in the name of not increasing any taxes is bound to leave Alberta in a situation as it was in the late 90s and still is today where they are having to build new roads and hospitals at a greater cost than they would at the time.
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But nobody is proposing what you are saying, it's just a scare tactic from the left to support ever increasing spending.
There is no justification for Alberta to be spending double what other provinces do per person, especially considering we have been doing so for a decade.
Even in the 'dark days' of Klein cuts, we spent about on average of the rest of Canada per capita. Yet the left would have you believe everyone was living on the street and driving on dirt roads. It just isnt true.