If NDP Premier John Horgan had a budget surplus, resigned and turned the Premier over to David Eby to lead the NDP and now has a $9 billion privincial debt, why should people vote for NDP?
Without criticizing any other party, what will NDP do for the people of BC after taking over a surplus and getting into debt, while people don’t have a family doctor and people who need surgery were sent to America to get surgery done? There’s a lost of criticzisms of Rustad but no explanation of where billions of dollars went.
Private businesses are going under which means people are losing income, emergency rooms are closing on a rotating basis, what justifies the debt which makes everything more expensive? When government takes on debt, the cost of buying anything goes up, taxes go up, which means every single person, regaless of income, becomes more poor so the government can pay for the debt by you having less money, less income.
Every estimate has Rustad running a larger deficit (even including his nonsensically optimistic forecasts for growth.) So, if a deficit matters to you, Conservatives seem like a poor choice no?
That’s how it’s supposed to work. During boom times, pay down debt and let private businesses expand the economy. Then increase government spending to cushion downturns like, say, a global pandemic that caused unprecedented work stoppage globally, with massive far-reaching economic consequences (like inflation from supply chains breaking down).
Or do you think the BC NDP is influential enough to cause inflation and deficits globally?
Edit: Also, it’s hard to take a party seriously when they base policy decisions on made-in-America QAnon conspiracy theory quackery, like that teachers are brainwashing children to turn them trans. Can we just call that for what it is? Punching down on trans kids to win points with Boomer bigots.
The provincial budget is public, you can see where it all went, just google it. Most of it goes to healthcare by the way.
Also, Rustads budget estimate is 11 billion based on his own released numbers.