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Originally Posted by FLAMESRULE
Its insane for many reasons, but I'll keep it simple...1) WE CANT AFFORD IT 2) Lots of people go above the call of their job 3) Lots of people (despite your premise otherwise) bring stuff into that office that they dont get compensated for.
At least a tuition reduction scheme benefits the province by keeping the brain power here and maintaining the tax base.
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The cost of removing or reducing tuition will cost the province millions of dollars per year (bordering on hundreds of million eventually when enrollment goes through the roof)? The ralph bucks will also cost the province millions of dollars when you're giving every tax payer a couple hundred dollars.
There are 30 thousand active teachers in AB. If all of them somehow claimed the max on this break (would more likely be a very small percentage as is the case with all tax breaks) it wouldn't even amount to anything close to the cost of these other perks.
I really don't see why anyone is getting bent out of shape for this when these other proposals are completely ludicrous and unaffordable - Especially when you are most concerned with the province not being able to afford a small tax break in comparison to hundreds of millions of dollars of free money/tuition breaks.