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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Well yeah, thats the Wildrose way. Cut, cut cut and then we'll be able to afford everything. If only it were that easy, but unlike a business or a person, a government doesn't work like that in any way. But apparently just cutting will fix the issues in this province (like somehow the issue isn't over reliance on resource revenue, its excessive spending.) Spending cuts will not achieve anything close to balancing a budget, unless they are extremely deep cuts that result in drastic decreases in service offerings, which most people will be opposed to. People want it every single way possible rather than the realistic way.
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Go back and read my post again and stop twisting my words into a straw man. What I said was that I support doing all 3 things: cutting spending, raising taxes, and taking on debt. What I don't support is raising taxes and taking on debt without first doing our best to reduce spending.