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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
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.
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You think roads today will be here in 50 years, let alone 10 years? I don't really agree with that. Last year we spent 3.2 Billion on roads, and 1.2 Billion on new schools/buildings etc. Of course a large portion of that probably were upgrade the PC's office buildings as well. If we simply controlled this spending in a predictable manner, we would be fine, but instead we have increased this budget 500% in less that a deacade. Totally and obviously unsustainable.
As for salaries.... 77% of our education budget and 70% of our health budget are spent on Salaries. That's 4.3 and 7.7 BILLION dollars respectively. You don't think there is some room to cut fat there? Since 2000 we've seen the population of students increase 3.9% yet we have 13.5% more teachers.... why? We've seen the total government payroll increase in size by 20%. Is that really necessary? And this doesn't even begin to touch the insanity that is public pensions.
It's time to cut some fat from this equation.