Comment 39651

By More roads (anonymous) | Posted April 10, 2010 at 19:11:14

Claw back the amount of money that goes to free health care, free education and social services and perhaps you will get your LRT. In the fifties and sixties, the government built infrastructure and our economy was very strong. Starting in the seventies, we shifted spending to entitlement programs and the economy has gotten worse every decade.

In 2009, all levels of government in Canada spent $594.5B. Of that, it spent 10.1%, or $60.5B on fixed capital. In contrast, it spent $121.6B on free health care, $95.7 on free education and $151B on social services, or around 60% of all government spending. If 10% was taken from the freebie budgets and dedicated to local infrastructure, it would be an additional $36B, or $1090/person. Hamilton's share of that would be $549M each and every year.

Are people willing to take a reduction of 10% in freebies to get half a billion in new infrastructure each and every year?

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