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Originally Posted by #-3
I feel like the economic choice is a bit of a false dichotomy.
The last 3 or 4 conservative governments we had pissed away the Alberta advantage, allowed infrastructure to crumble, gave individuals money rather then considering the benefits of collective investment, and now they are buying the votes of those who can provide for themselves by promising tax cuts, without regard for the social or economic health of the province, and they hold this up a fiscal responsibility.
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Have you read the UCP platform? Whose votes are they buying? They haven’t proposed a flat tax or any personal tax cuts.
The tax cuts they have proposed are specifically for the improvement of the economic health of the province (Whethwr you agree with the race to the bottom on corporate taxes or that lower corporate taxes increases overall tax revenues or not)
They aren’t really proposing to significantly cut services. They are going to hold the line on current program spending. Assuming a few more years of zero for the unions (Notley did a really good job here) then you are cutting services by 1-2% per year after inflation and pop growth. This seems like pretty reasonable targets.
If you look at their economic plan outside of foolishly cutting the Carbon tax it is pretty reasonable.