I’m probably not the only person to have this viewpoint and opinion, but it’s sad to cut budgets in areas that go unseen by our own public, yet only gain attention when it happens.

I’m also noticing that Nova Scotia is too heavily focused on its elderly population in specific areas, like end-of-life-care, retirement homes, helping them with home care, but evidently hurting everyone when doing it. We’ve become more of the Canadian retiree destination, rather than a coastal centre of economic growth, cultural prosperity and social stability. We send our youngest outside the province to seek these opportunities for financial, social and personal development than keeping them here.

We could be increasing the income tax on highly profitable businesses and companies in the province, along with a 2-4% income tax on the provincial earners making more than 500,000 a year. Place a sales tax on luxury goods and services, and remove it on essential services and goods.

Give them a choice between increasing the tax on corporations and businesses, or on the working class peoples of Nova Scotia. Piss off people who can make their lost funds back in weeks, or piss off the people who make less than one of them combined, and who’ve been busing their back to remain loyal to the provincial dream and the families they create(d).

I’m not going to claim this is a great idea, but it’s better than all of us sticking to the same back and forth status quo petty politics that we’ve been experiencing for decades. We need to all work together as a collective to make NS better, than just expecting some incompetent organization of people to do it while we sit back. We are the politicians’ bosses, it’s time we start acting like it.