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Old 03-07-2014, 11:30 AM   #91
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Originally Posted by MarchHare View Post
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".

Maybe you weren't looking hard enough?

If they do it again for yesterday's budget, this will be the fifth year Wildrose has released a very thorough alternative budget explain how they would budget differently than the PCs. It goes well beyond the unicorn and rainbow level of discussion and deeper into specifics.

Here's a link to last year's: http://www.wildrosecaucus.ca/media/2013/03/WebTry.pdf

While I don't agree with much of it, I wouldn't accuse them of lacking specifics either.
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