How do you feel about X in your country?

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Mar1217 said:

Marach said:
well, canada, specifically Quebec, because some of those issues are managed at a provincial level

How is healthcare. In canada we get free healthcare for almost all our needs. which would made a pretty boring Breaking Bad serie in canada, because it would last one episode : -hey you got cancer. -wow th'at's pretty bad what i can do ? -Here's your appointement for your first treatment, it's free.

however, it's free for the user, but of course we pay for it collectively. so in Quebec we pay around 30% taxes on our salary, plus a 15% sale tax for everything you buy.

and it's not perfect. the waiting at the emergency is about 10 to 18 hours, waiting list for some procedure can be months of not years. the medical system is sucking more and more money every year. And lately we have a prime minister and 2 of the most important minister that are doctors. and in the last few years, the doctor salary have go sky high, while other ressources like nurses are getting more and more jobs and less time to do it. we do more with less and the system is getting exausted.

Hello ! Fellow Québécois !

The tax system on our salary goes on different level of imposition. You got high salary who get most tax % in our system and the those at 11K (CAN$) who doesn't have to pay taxes on their salary.

As you said, our healtcare and some social services have been struggling these last years due to cuts (Austerity) or reform made by our neoliberalist governement who then goes to enrich the most wealthy of our society. Wouldn't be surprising  if their end goal was to privatize all of these services so that they don't have to do much afterward. 

Though, they've been recently investing into social programs such as services concerning our public kindergarten, education (Universities) and ... I don't remember the rest ... but the elctions are coming soon so these are just candies to try and make us forget the first and horrible 2 years the province lived through with the austerity.

P.S: Like Nem said, austerity doesn't work.

I mean, Quebec *does* spend its surplus. 

 

Eventually, you *do* need to reduce debt to gdp. *Net* debt is currently still at 46% - for a sub-national institution, that is quite a lot. If not now, when the economy is prosperous, what do you suggest? We need the capacity to spend liberally during a crisis.