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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
How about we demand getting reasonable results for what we spend on services instead of imagining that cutting spending = reduced results?
As we have seen, massive increasing in spending over the past years has really had no measurable effect on outcomes whatsoever. Most provinces in Canada spend considerably less than Alberta does, but yet they have comparable, or even better outcomes for that spending.
Alberta is like the lottery winner who buys custom Ford GT but doesn't get to work any faster than his neighbor driving a civic but thinks downgrading to a Subaru is going to really impact his commute time.
Spending does not guarantee outcomes.
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I have no problems with this, where possible, however Azure was assuming that the majority of Albertans would rather have cuts than pay any tax increase.
There is a point in the spending/tax equilibrium where this is almost certainly true, but assuming it is true at all points is foolish.
For example: I think it would be safe to assume that the majority of the population would support freezing MLA wages before increasing taxes to pay allow the wage increases. On the other hand, the support numbers would be quite obviously different if we were talking about increasing taxes to pay for current levels of Health Care or Education funding.
This also doesn't take into account that half the people in the province are likely comparable to a turnip when talking about their economic 'smarts', which really makes you wonder why would you (as a random person - not an elected official) would advocate for something that is popular instead of something that would be the best for the province.