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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
It’s pretty outdated thinking. At this rate, I think the Conservatives and the NDP will both be better financially if for no other reason than the fact that corruption and bloat creeps in the longer a party stays in power, and starting fresh hits the reset button.
Financially, the NDP are going to spend more and offer more, better services (healthcare, education, etc) at the cost of increased taxes. The Conservatives are going to spend less and offer less and worse services at the benefit of reduced or stagnant taxes.
The choice between the NDP and the Conservatives is whether you want to live better with less spending money or live worse with more. Anyone looking to the Conservatives to be financial stewards hasn’t been paying attention… at all.
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Myth again, there really isn't much evidence of conservative governments spending less. Collecting less, yes there is evidence of that. but generally they've balanced the books by selling off public assets which ends up costing us more in the long run, the haven't had the backbone to cut services along with their rhetoric, because political suicide, and what they have cut has instead been outsourcing to private firms because they don't want to abandon the service which costs us more in the long run.
It's also worth noting, when you look at the long term costs of the UPC governments ill advised corporate welfare, it should be measured in the billions. You look at Bush II's dumb war, trillions. You look at Trumps tax cuts trillions. Reagan / Friedman gutting the regulatory state tens of trillions in public losses. Klein's infrastructure deficit at least hundreds of millions in future costs that didn't need to be incurred.
Generally what we have seen out of conservatives, is short term costly thinking that puts the low level background level of Trudeau corruption to shame.