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Originally Posted by belsarius
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”.
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I mistyped the the number, my apologies
They have not met pop growth plus inflation and with wage freezes you should be increasing at only 50% of inflation plus pop growth. This should be the expectation of any competent government.
I’m curious as to where you get the idea that I want to blow up Hospitals and schools? I want to replicate Nenshi and the previous CEO of Calgary methodology of operating like a business and finding efficiencies to save 5% of costs. (Calgary was able to achieve this). And I want the government to take a hard line on the next 4 years of union negotiations as the NDP has done for the last two. Save your rhetoric for someone else.
I agree with you that tax cuts should not be part of anyone’s platform going forward.