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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
And yet Redford's PCs got elected on a promise to build a hundred new schools. Don't underlook how powerful a contingent soccer moms are in a province as young as Alberta. Anyone who thinks the provincial government can balance its budget by just snipping a bit of waste here and there is kidding themselves.
I guess I'd ask what's so special about Alberta that people think we can fund public health care, education, etc. to the level Albertans expect (which is the best in the world) without a tax mechanism that virtually ever other country/state/province in the developed world uses to bring in sustainable revenue.
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Alberta isn't special at all. We in Alberta/Canada/the developed world expect far too much from government to be fiscally solvent over multiple generations. We're also way too juvenile as an electorate to have an adult conversation about this too so our politicians just promise more goodies or threaten Armageddon if any services need to be cut back.