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Originally Posted by Fuzz
So you don't have a problem with people who can absolutely afford it themselves with no negatives to their lives still getting subsidized, while people who can't afford it may now have to work an extra job to make ends meet? Wouldn't it make far more sense to have a cap on income for subsidies, and those dollars go to help the ones who actually need it?
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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
You may be interested to know that at a recent town hall several UCP MLAs complained that they aren’t even fans of this program. I don’t know how much of their disapproval was due to the actual program or just it being a product of the federal liberals’ policy but it’s still comical to see someone using it as an argument for things they’ve done well when the UCP don’t even like the program.
But yay for corporate tax cuts in exchange for higher property taxes, wage suppression, gutting worker protections, kicking AISH recipients in the balls and trying to appease the leader of a country that is actively trying to cause us undue economic hardship?
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I do have a problem with it. I think it's overcorrecting a problem that didn't really exist. An income cap on subsidies was $180,000 in the old system.
My kids are older so it doesn't affect me anymore but those i know with kids in daycare and even on left-learning reddit, people like it. Remember, people are selfish and one-issue voters, not thinking about the entire societal pie like we do. So to them, this is a good UCP policy, which was what surferguy was asking.
The Liberal policy is to reduce daycare down to $10/day, here's the money provinces, you figure it out. The best Alberta can seem to do is $15/day. The UCP must have felt it was unfair that some people were paying $1000 and others less than $100 under the subsidy system. And yes, we can argue, but they can afford it etc....
And again, the quiet part out loud, some dayhomes were gaming the system, watching kids of friends and getting thousands from the government and charging people nothing and the bigger franchised daycares were losing out. When the Liberals announced this program, dayhomes around Calgary suddenly sprung up.
So now the province has reduced that gap to between $325 and $700, which is the highest rate I've heard of in the new system.