Warning to Alberta voters. Starting in 1990, Bob Rae's NDP government in Ontario tried to spend its way out of a recession, but things did not end well for them or the province. The NDP government raised the provincial income tax rate twice- and they didn't go after just the "rich"; they came after everyone, at a time when many were under wage freeze or rollback.  Also, you might not know or remember the "Rae days" and the deep cuts in government spending that the NDP had to put through in 1993, when the deficit threatened to go through the roof. A similar fate likely awaits Alberta.