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Originally Posted by cal_guy
Ontario has the lowest per capita government spending of all the provinces and is among the lowest in provincial government workers per capita. Health care worker's wages are lower than the Canada's average, and teacher salaries are middle of the pack. It's not like here in Alberta that has a pretty clear-cut example of overspending.
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Yeah, but if you look at the Ontario spending habit, they just piss money away on stupidity that is mind boggling.
Someone here mentioned things like increasing revenues, and I agree on it to an extent, but things like Carbon Taxes are going to get trickled down to the people that can least afford it. If you look at things like utility costs in Ontario and the gas plant boondoggle. How costly the ornge scandal is.
The Ontario public service is incredibly bloated, I think I read somewhere that about 20% of the jobs in Ontario is in public service. During the election when Hudak lost it based on his comment that he would cut 100,000 public sector jobs, but after the election Wynne basically after ripping Hudak on the election trails pretty much agreed with him.
The bigger problem is the pay, especially at the top end.
It boggles my mind that on their sunshine list that 75% of the people that work for Ontario power generation make over $100,000. Hydro one had over 70%. That's not very much comfort to people who have seen their utilities skyrocket.
Ontario has a serious problem, and increasing taxes isn't going to solve it, and putting in a carbon tax that's going to be handed down to the consumer isn't going to solve it.