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We've created a bloated government with more workers than ever. A rate that grows beyond the rate of population growth or need.
More lies.
- From 1976 - 2012, the population increased by 60.5%. The number of public sector employees in Ontario increased by 60.2% over the same period.
-Since 1976, almost 10% of the entire population has been a public sector worker. Under the Mike Harris government, it briefly dipped below 9%. It returned close to the historical range in the last six years or so, actually declining slightly in 2012.
- Given that total WORKING population increased from 44.5% TO 50.2% since 1976, public sector employees are actually a smaller proportion of the workforce.
Your rhetoric only adds up if you use the all-time low during the Harris years as the baseline. The Harris era was another time when cons said "times are tough, we all have to tighten our belts and bear the pain for the next little while"...now you're trying to use that as the gold standard that we should always aspire to.
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I haven't read anything about the Ontario PC's cutting essential services, nor is it part of their plan. You must be hearing the commercials from the unions and think it's true.
Health and Education are essential, and this is where Hudak says most of his cuts will be focused. You want to go back to the Harris years when schools were understaffed and and only 54% of highschool students were graduating? I wonder if Hudak is going to copy Harris and appoint a highschool drop-out as education minister too (TRUE FACT).
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The Ontario Liberals have cut corporate taxes to spur job growth. Did you oppose to that? It's hard to spur job growth when your energy policy drives business away.
I wasn't a fan of their corporate tax cuts - and I'm definitely not a fan of the right-wing mantra that coprate taxes must be cut EVERY election cycle. And if tax cuts really did improve the economy, the Liberals cuts would have saved the economy, right? Corporate taxes are already HALF what they were in 1960 and almost 50% less than what they were in 1992.
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The cuts that Hudak and the PC's have proposed aren't to finance a tax giveaway. You're fear mongering again. The cuts are to bring our budget back into the black. I know it's not a major concern for people of your political persuasion, but it's a major concern for some of us.
BULLSHIT. His platform says he's going to cut corporate taxes by 30%. A tax cut is a loss of revenue. This lost revenue and his planned job cuts are all part of the same fiscal plan, ERGO some of the savings Hudak finds from slitting 100,000 throats will be used to offset the lost revenue from corporate tax cuts. You're smarter than that.
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Eliminating 100,000 jobs through attrition isn't firing 100,000 people and leaving them out of work. They've already left their job either to retire, new job or death. A little tidbit of fact that gets lost in the scare-mongering.
1) They didn't promise it would be primarily through attrition.
2) At the end of the day, it's still 100,000 fewer teachers, nurses, administrators available to service the population, while the population contiues to GROW, so that is a service cut.
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Government's don't directly create jobs in the private sector, they can only make it attractive for business to do so. They can create jobs with the right policy.
Jobs are mostly created due to macroeconimic events. Nobody is going to reloacte a factory from China just because the government of the day shaved the tax rate or made some other short-term promise. Businesses know it can just as easily go back the other way at the next election.
CKA Uber 
