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While I'm not sympathetic to the teachers asking for a raise when other civil servants get Net Zero, they have a point about restoring special needs funding. A teacher has to cope with and educate over 20 regular high energy kids, throw in a couple special needs kids and that draws away from the attention the others receive.

This is all a symptom of Gordo's ill advised income tax cuts when he first took office. Since those we've been inundated with: the carbon tax; the aborted HST; tolls; large transit fare increases; etc. It is clear Campbell cut revenue below what the province needs to deliver the services citizens expect.

There's no surer way to stoke a tax revolt than the "death by a thousand cuts" taxes and fees we've seen since. The worst outcome would a California style Prop 13 meltdown, where citizens just say 'enough" and shutdown all spending.