TOareaFan
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I was partly kidding but it depends on perspective.......I think voters rank issues (whether they realize it or not) and if I use me as an example.......I rank fiscal balance #1 and transit #2........I think the Liberals transit plan (with flaws as all plans do) is the best of the 3 major parties.....but niggling in my head is the fear that we will never balance the budget....as I have said a few times on these threads I had been looking for a reason to vote Liberal to access that transit plan and hoped that their "we will balance the budget one year later" had some weight/credibility behind it....now the same economists that are critical of the Tory job plan express serious doubt that there is truth behind the Liberal balance budget plan....so I feel misled by them and will likely just revert to issue #1.
In other words, given their history with budgets I view the Liberal "we will get to balance" promise as an indication that they recognize that balancing the budget is important to some Ontarians and their promise to do it (without a realistic plan to do it) is an attempt to mislead those Ontarians to look past the increasing deficit at their other issues.
People who don't view balanced budgets as important will view it as a less major transgression. To those people I will simply point out that this year's budgeted deficit for Ontario is larger than all other 9 provinces and the federal government - COMBINED! We are digging a massive fiscal hole and increasing, significantly, the amount of our provincial income that simply services the accumulated debt.....we are not too too far from those Hudak cuts that Wynne is telling us to fear becoming less of a philisophical/optional call and more of a mandatory situation.
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