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Originally Posted by stampsx2
So if I understand you correctly we're paying around 40% taxes on average per person and that's something we should be proud of? Should I be even more proud because our province and country can't balance the books at those rates? When does money squandering come into question?
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The problem with many of those on the left is that they strongly believe there is a direct linear relationship between spending and service outcomes. However, it's been conclusively proven that is not the case over and over again. Alberta is, and has been for decades, the highest spending province in Canada. Yet, our service outcomes are generally average or worse than that in many comparisons.
Cutting spending doesn't mean cutting services, and increasing spending doesn't mean improving services. If you send two people into the grocery store with $100 and one comes out with a weeks worth of supplies and the other comes back with prime rib and some chips for one night, the solution to equal their outcomes isn't to give the second guy more money....