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Originally Posted by spotthefan
So many are wanting “restraint” in the budget but I doubt it’s actually what people want in the end.
Show me where to “restrain” spending. What should be lost? Cut?
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5 year wage freeze on all public sector postitions until wages are behind both BC and Ontario. This amounts to a 10% spending cut on 50% of government expenses.
Eliminate “Green” funding for Carbon tax dollars and put that money where it should be in general revenue.
The city of Calgary through their efficiency programs found about 5% in process improvements so the province should be able to do the same.
So if you add that up you get about 2.5 billion in wage freezes, 1 billion in Carbon tax, 2.5 billion in efficiency you get around 6 billion without cutting services.
Then you could restore spending per capita to 2015 plus inflation levels but that would take some cuts to enhanced services by the NDP. The above doesn’t even account for GDP growth which would balance GDP faster.
The NDP fixed the revenue problem. They created a spending problem.