[belsarius]

Originally Posted by GGG

let them Strike. Use the bargaining process to extract concessions. Legislate essential services back to work. If a prolonged strike does occurs the elimination of defined benefit plans goes on the table. Many in the private sector are also running 5 zeros.

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Not me, the only sensible place for revenue to go is general. All projects should compete with eachother for revenue. If in the absense of a Carbon tax a project doesn’t get funded then the project isn’t worth doing. The amount of Carbon tax for behaviour hange is not the same as the amount of projects being funded. I agree that sustainable transit funding should be a priority as funds permit. That has nothing to do with the presence or absense of a Carbon tax.

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Based on your economic theory we should hire people to do nothing so they aren’t unemployed.



Source please? 43 - 55 billion, please break down the parts you want to exclude. Also when you freeze salary spending should only increase at 1/2 of inflation because Salary spending has been fixed and is about half the cost..



I haven’t really advocated cuts. I look at they city of Calgary operational efficiencies found and do not see a loss of services. This needs to be replicated.

The NDP has made the situation worse budget wise. Spending went from 43 billion to 55 billion. We can discuss what the benefits and costs of it are but from a balance sheet perspective they certainly made it worse. Also just as Bad as Redford is not acceptable.


I given them credit in doing the heavy lifting on the revenue side but their spending is not acceptable.

Where is this $43B number coming from? The provinces expenses haven’t been that low since 2012. When the NDP took over it was $48B. And if you break it down all expense increases have been to education and AHS. Every other ministry has been on wage/hiring freezes and 0 contract increases the whole time the NDP has been in charge. The increase is under 5% a year they have been in power. And only one year represented a major deviation from inflation+pop increase. This whole spending like a drunken sailor trope isn’t based in fact. You want to blow up hospitals and schools to save some debt payments? That’s your right to vote that way. Me, I’m supporting the government that supports the middle class over some neoliberal rubbish of “job creating tax cuts” and “austerity is best for everyone”.