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Originally Posted by Slava
The Globe and Mail had a web page setup a few years back where you could cut programs or increase taxes to balance the budget (federally). It was on CP here as well, and without a tax increase was nearly impossible.
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Looking at spending by department is, of course, advantageous for those advocating increases in spending.
If we look at things in another way, for example take Alberta; that in the period of 2000-2010 provincial revenues increased 8.5 billion dollars and public sector salaries increased by roughly 8.1 billion, or from 25% of our annual budget to nearly 50%, we can see things in a bit different light.