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Originally Posted by MarchHare
The problem I -- and many others -- had with the Wildrose platform is that it was full of unicorns and rainbows but very short on specifics. How, exactly, were they planning to balance the budget while keeping service quality consistent without raising taxes? Other than performing ritual sacrifices to the O&G gods in the hopes that royalties would magically increase back to ~2005 levels, their numbers just didn't add up...unless, of course, you bought into the grand lie that there's tens of billions to be found simply by "cutting waste" and "finding efficiencies".
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Their platform certainly didn't have 'tens of billions' of dollars attributed to empty platitudes....there was plenty to criticize without making things up. And while I know you are constantly attacking the Wildrose party exclusively because of your personal bias, alleging that the other parties didn't make similar assumptions or promises in their own calculations is nothing but your own "unicorns and rainbows".
Bottom line, one more time: Wildrose promised to
cut spending and
maintain taxes to attempt to balance the budget, the Liberal Party promised to
increase taxes and
increase spending to balance budget, and the PC's promised to
increase spending and
maintain taxes to balance the budget.
And here we are, billions of dollars in debt, again.