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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Transfer payments move wealth from high-earning Canadians to lower earning Canadians. We’re fortunate enough to live in part of the country with more high-earning citizens than New Brunswick or Manitoba (partly because their younger and more productive people have moved here), so there’s a net shift of money out of the province.
You know where a similar transfer happens? From Alberta’s cities, which are young and productive, to Alberta’s rural communities, made up of people who are older and have lower incomes. Should we scrap this socialist model, keep Calgary taxes in Calgary, and let hospitals and schools in rural Alberta close?
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Yes this is pretty much how I feel about it. The regionalist propaganda has convinced many people that it's a place based wealth transfer when really it's a means based wealth transfer. Someone in Toronto who makes 100K per year pays the same amount for equalization as someone who makes 100K per year in Calgary.
Regardless of all that my point wasn't about equalization at all and more about how two-faced folk like the UCP and Moe are with how they will become apocalyptic about equalization... but only when a politician they don't identify with is the one in charge of or opining about it. If they actually cared about the topic they would spazz just as hard about it regardless of the color of the tie that the politician of the day are wearing and that they don't is telling.