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Originally Posted by SebC
While I agree that free tuition is a bad move, enrolment woudln't go through the roof because admissions would be capped.
Again, the problem with this is that it's a special interest tax break, and one that was not collectively-bargained for. If that's okay, then I want a SebC tax break. I don't know why you'd have a problem with this, there's only one SebC, so it's not like it would cost a lot of money compared to a tax break for everyone.
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Tax breaks like this already exist all over the board. I'm really not sure why anyone can be so bent out of shape over it. Some of these parties are proposing platforms (that so many posters seem to forget when talking about this) that are financially impossible and would destroy our province.
A teacher tax credit is certainly more responsible then giving everyone a blanket raise as some are suggesting. A raise of only 5000 a year for the 30 thousand teachers would equate to 150M a year and makes no sense since it would be aimed at rewarding a small percentage of people that a tax credit can easily accomplish and for a fraction.
Please provide sources that indicate post secondary enrollment would be capped if tuition was removed - something that would cost our province over
1Billion dollars a year and obviously degrade the quality of post secondary education. You approach it matter of factly and I haven't seen anything concrete to suggest it. Naturally every university in Alberta is going to up class sizes in order to make more money once tuition is solely on tax payers shoulders. If this isn't the biggest vote buy of them all (right ahead of Ralph bucks part 2) I don't know what is.
I guess i just makes a lot more sense to whine about a miniscule tax break then it does to question multi million/billion dollar bogus programs. If taxes aren't going up considerably to fund any of these policies I guess we'll just have to "better allocate money" by cutting it out of health care and education. 1 Billion per year for tuition and 500M in ralph er dani bucks isn't just hiding under the rug somewhere.
Everything in an election is a "vote buy". Claiming one thing is but another isn't makes no sense.