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My areas of concern are the environment, health care, and finances.
My core concern, though, is finances; and in that, I cannot back environmental and health care expenditures that are not clearly financially feasible. I find that creates a precarious position for myself because none of the parties strike me as of that mindset.
Harper and the Cons are completely comfortable with the tremendous cost of mandatory minimum sentences, and the cost overruns of the F35 project, and I'm certain they would feel it fit to throw $100b at another war in the Middle East were one to arise. So, aren't they willing to spend on whatever their social and defence policy considers important?
What I'd really like to see is a party that is willing to say something like, "we're going to legalize and tax the shit out of marijuana, and with the est. $700m (a completely arbitrary number) in revenue that will generate, we're going to extend universal health care to cover dental care for children."
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