How is the Catholic school board in Calgary able to have smaller class sizes than the CBE given that they have the same per student funding? I think that until we can figure out why the CBE is much more expensive to operate than other comparable school boards they shouldn't recieve more funding.
I do agree that we should develop a model which weans us off resource revenue over a 20 year period and creates a sustaining fund to reduce income taxes and would be in favour of a tax increase to do that. Perferable an HST type tax that would just add 1 or 2% to the GST and follow all the same rules to avoid any additional administrative costs.
Health Care funding needs to be capped at the rate of inflation and we need to start unfunding treatments if neccessary to reign in costs.
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