Is it Finally Time to Reduce Income Tax Rates?

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

I see the province as being behind on a number of things, healthcare being but one of them. Paying down provincial debt would be another. Transit, infrastructure, housing, etc etc. Not our decision to make, anyhow. I’m sure our premier has lots of ideas, though, and I’m comfortable leaving it in his hands. FWIW, it would be nice if we could have a version of him at the federal level.

I would have hoped that at least some on the $2 billion windfall NS received would have been applied to the debt, but it was apparently all spent on other things. They could have at least thrown us a bone by indexing income tax brackets finally, and providing some modest increase to provincial pensions which have been essentially frozen for nearly 10 years.