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| 900.1 | | POLAR::RICHARDSON | Ooo Ah silly me | Thu Feb 23 1995 15:57 | 9 |
| Leave the middle class alone.
Eliminate some loop holes.
A few new consumer taxes.
Eliminte/scale down some services.
Hope for a better year.
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| 900.2 | Time to get tough! | KAOFS::LOCKYER | | Thu Feb 23 1995 17:04 | 29 |
| Start with an across the board 15% budget reduction in every department
- don't care how the budget in each department is reduced, just say do
it and hold the minister accountable.
More heavvily reduce the military and Ottawa staff.
No personal income tax increases- remove all or part of surtaxes if
possible.
Tax the hell out of alcohol and tabacco - tabacco to the point that the
industry packs up and leaves Canada.
Totally ignore special interest groups.
Quite buying Quebec loyalty by awarding Quebec contracts that other
regins would have got otherwise.
Take a 10% pay/perks cut.
Eliminate peace keeping missions.
Implement minimum tax on everyone - individuals and corporations
(remembering that in the end, individuals eventually pay ALL taxes!).
Pass a constitutional amendment forbidding the proposal of a deficit
budget and requiring a government to resign if a budget deficit more
than 5% occurs.
That'll do for the first day!
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| 900.3 | | POLAR::RICHARDSON | Ooo Ah silly me | Thu Feb 23 1995 20:30 | 1 |
| <---- political suicide. The opposition parties would be very happy.
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| 900.4 | I know I'm being somewhat idealistic, but it's a start! | KAOFS::LOCKYER | | Thu Feb 23 1995 23:19 | 9 |
| Don't care about opposition parties or getting re-elected! If any
party even came close to taking serious deficit cutting measures
without raising individual taxes, the population would re-elect them
"no questions asked" at the end of five years.
I'm no great fan of Ralph Klein and am not convinced his way is the one
and only, but he (and what's going on in Alberta) is a real good
example of how the population will react when politicians make
difficult decisions.
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| 900.5 | How will the population react ?? | CGOOA::BCLARKE | | Fri Feb 24 1995 13:08 | 12 |
| Re: -1
I am not quite sure what you mean by "How the people will react." As an
Albertan, I am quite pleased at what Klein has done. As far as I am
concerned .... "KLEIN FOR PRIME MINISTER !!"
Making spending cuts and other hikes in social benefits (Health Care),
is never going to make you any friends ... but he gets the job done.
My 2 cents
Brian
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| 900.6 | Use SOME of his ideas, forget the man! | KAOFS::LOCKYER | | Fri Feb 24 1995 13:15 | 9 |
| Yes, Bernie, I'm using Klein as a positive example - so far, the vast
majority of Albertans are supportive of his measures.
On the other hand, having lived in Calgary when Ralph got started in
politics and was the mayor, I wouldn't want to see him as PM,
particularly if he's with the Conservative Party. While he now wears
suits and appears to be able to tie a tie (not that these are the sum
requirements for PM...), I can't see him moving to the
national/international stage.
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| 900.7 | | POLAR::RICHARDSON | Ooo Ah silly me | Fri Feb 24 1995 13:52 | 7 |
| Try doing what Klein did in a have not province like Nova Scotia or
Newfoundland or, as it would seem nowadays, Ontario.
If it wasn't for Alberta's energy dollars things would be very
different.
Glenn
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| 900.8 | | KAOFS::B_VANVALKENB | | Fri Feb 24 1995 17:27 | 17 |
|
flat tax on all income
leave current rebate systems in place to compensate those with low
income
flat tax on business
cut all funding for CBC,arts,multiculturalism
greatly reduce foriegn aide and defense spending
----reduction in defense spending would pretty much mandate us pulling
out of nato
make all infrastructure work a provincial responsibility
Its a start....this country needs to bleed (alot)
Brian V
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| 900.9 | Pass the tea, Charles! | POLAR::STOODLEY | | Mon Feb 27 1995 19:09 | 7 |
| Create a national lottery in which all the profits go
directly to reducing the national debt.
Also, quit sending 100 million bucks to the Queen every year.
I'm sure she can do without the truffles at tea break.
Blair.
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| 900.10 | | KAOFS::B_VANVALKENB | | Tue Feb 28 1995 15:29 | 13 |
| So the deal is done.
Not that I'm complaining but how do the liberals justify cutting
45,000 civil servants when the ran on a jobs-jobs-jobs campain.
IMO the budget was pretty good but didn't go far enough to cut the
debt. This is similar to cutting headcount in a business to return to
profitability without changing processes or the management team.
Brian V
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| 900.11 | | FSCORE::HOGAN | | Tue Feb 28 1995 15:47 | 17 |
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re -1
>didn't go far enough to cut the debt.
I think you mean deficit...(we don't want to confuse anybody, do we?)
>similar to cutting headcount ...without changing processes ....
I think there's more changes occuring in the PSC than they tend
to advertise. Dept's and programs are continually changing (ie, getting
more efficient), but the gov't has been relunctant to fire the "surplus"
employees (mainly because of a job security clause among the PSAC members.)
Mike.
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