Any political body that gets elected by making promises that it doesnt keep should be immediately forced into election. If they didn’t have their facts straight before the election they shouldn’t be elected and political parties need to be held accountable for lying to people. If taxes increase their will be consequences as many people in this province earn low wages and cannot afford higher taxes. Another solution must be found that is not carried on the backs of the average Nova Scotian taxpayer which is already over burdened.

In 2009, the highest to lowest combined federal/province tax rates in Canada:
1st = worst:
1. NS @ 48.25% :- (
2. PQ @ 48.22%
3. PEI @ 47.37%
4. ON @ 46.41%
5. MB @ 46.40%
6. NB @ 46%
7. NEWFOUNDLAND @ only 44.5%!!!!
8. SK @ 44%
9. BC @ 43.7%
10 AB @ 39% = LOWEST :- )

Also…
low income earners do best in BC
low income earners do the worst in SK
***HELP! high income earners in NS pay the most taxes in Canada

John lets remember that parties looking to get into office rarely have all the facts due to the fact that the government rarley makes the facts available. Only when the new party gets to form government do they have access to all the ‘books’ and know the real story. Not that I am saying the NDP are doing great, because they are not, but lets cut them some slack. It was probably the worst time due to the recession for any new government to take office. If rich provinces like Quebec, Ontario and Alberta are struggling do you really think that our transfer dependent province is going to fair much better. I however agree with you that raising taxes is not the solution, infact it will likely hurt us more than it would do to raise money. Raising our taxes in hopes of generating more revenue will be like trying to squeeze water from a rock.

This was not part of the platform that NS voted for.

We all need to suck it up and get through this by cutting costs.

Has raising taxes helped us here?