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Originally Posted by GullFoss
I'm a fan of Clark, but I sat in a few policy meetings for the Alberta party and it wasn't my cup of tea. It was basically a lot of policies that could come right out of the NDP handbook
I want a party that is NDP on costless social policies and intellectually honest when it comes to fiscal spending issues to fix the long term issues plaguing this province. I have no problem keeping corporate taxes low to encourage competitiveness, measures that incentivize new and existing businesses to grow, investing in R&D to build out good jobs in new industries and spending more on front line workers. I have no issues with a PST or higher income taxes if the beuarocracy and public sector wages is paired back, the healthcare system becomes streamlined through economy of scales, we stop wasting money on special interest initiatives and we use the higher tax base to stop the deficit spend.
The problem is that both parties are intellectually dishonest when it comes to fiscal issues. The NDP wastes tax dollars in a stupid way for progressive idiologies and the UCP just wants to give money back to the well to do. Neither want to discuss the huge lean on resource revenues or that the economy would fall apart if oil demand reversed.
It's seriously ####ing awful because this province has enough time to pivot away from oil and gas over the next 30 years, but it takes leadership and foresight, which is something neither party has.
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In 2013 Energy industries were 25% of Alberta's GDP. For an extremely resource rich province like Alberta what do you think is a good % of GDP?