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Originally Posted by GGG
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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Good question about Catholic vs CBE, CBE should not be immune to scrutiny. And while I used education as the example since it directly affects my family, I meant this as a taxation/revenue thread not an education one. So yeah, health care is a big issue too.
I'm thinking a more progressive income tax would be more palatable. There are a lot of well off people here - would it hurt them to pony up a bit more? I also heard that if we raised corporate taxes to the level of the next lowest province it would raise $18B - not that we want to go all that way but that's a big chunk of change.