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Originally Posted by Slava
I agree with most of what you say here, but I'm curious about the bolded. I'm not sure how life has gotten more expensive for most people if you set aside inflation.
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Insurance rates, tuition costs, user fees, removal of electricity cap, de-indexing tax brackets, de-indexing AISH to name a few. All of these increased before the current inflation issue
And it's not like taxes have gone down, most Albertans are paying more tax now since the deindexing of the personal amount (not that it's significant, but it exists).
So basically I am paying the same amount of taxes and now paying more out of pocket. Just from a how much money is in my wallet perspective, the NDP were better. Since that seems to be the consensus of how people vote, then it seems to reason that voting for the UCP is going against that logic.
And just to be clear I am not using this with any other point such as government debt burdens or social issues, just in solely looking at the one issue that seems to matter most when people complain about voting left wing - that it ends up costing more.