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Date Posted: 07:29:36 11/07/03 Fri
Author: Adam T
Subject: My take from British Columbia on the election

I don't buy the idea that the NDP won based on a fear campaign that they newspapers are putting out. The voters are smarter than that.

The Sask Party ran on a platform of dramatically reducing taxes, and dramatically increasing spending. They called this a campaign of hope, the Saskatchewan voters realized it was a campaign of fantasy.

The Sask Part said the way they would circle the square of reducing taxes and getting more revenue was by promoting growth, there are 3 problems with this:

1.There is always a time lag between policy changes and a response in the economy. So, even if you believe that tax cuts would lead to growth, it would take at least a couple years before the effects would be noticable. How would the Sask Party make up the difference in the interim?

2.What if the tax cuts did not lead to the growth as predicted. The Sask Party never spelled out how tax cuts and weakening labour laws would entice 100,000 people to the province. A political observer on a different board speaking on a different jurisdiction said those policies would make his state "a pit stop on the road to the bottom". It is a good point, Many businesses interested in investing in an area because of low taxes or weak labour laws would likely choose Mexico or China over Saskatchewan. If the growth didn't materialize as fantasized, how would the Sask Party pay for their tax cuts?

3.Even if the growth did materialize, growth is not free. Population expansion requires new roads, it makes existing roads more expensive to maintain, new water utilities have to be constructed, more teachers have to be hired, more police, more doctors..... Where would the Sask Party get the money for all these things?

The answer to the question I've asked at the end of each point was obvious to the voters of Saskatchewan; they could only get the money by selling government assets, and the biggest assets the government has are the Crowns.

The NDP did not run a campaign to scare the voters, they ran a campaign that relied on the common sense of voters. And the voters had the common sense to reject the fairy tale campaign of the Sask Party. Good for you.

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