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Originally Posted by Fuzz
So the government is so ####ing stingy they can't find $500 million a year to improve education in this province?
A 1% PST would bring in around $2 billion a year.
We can't afford stuff because our government does not want to be able to afford stuff, because it would mean abandoning their "principles".
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This has nothing to do with a PST though. That is an entirely different argument and one that should be looked at separately from any public services or collective bargaining. It is already bananas that teachers are being forced to bargain with the province to simply hire the required number of teachers to teach and assistants to fill gaps.
The UCP has the money to increase funding already (and lots of it) and is choosing to put it elsewhere, or as we are learning, divert much of it to private schools that will do their bidding implicitly or lose that funding while serving only the well to do's of the province.
Same thing is going to happen to healthcare with for profit providers.