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Originally Posted by Parallex
Oh please, like the Tories weren't tickled pink to get to hand out all those giant novelty cheques and spend millions more taxpayer dollars on TV ads bragging about them.
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Then why didn't they propose those stimulus packages in the first place? I liked their initial budget as it was something that as a small C conservative, I could identify with. Once they were basically forced to go the route of big spending, of course they were going to try and give themselves all the credit, that's just politics.
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Depends on what's done with it. Under Chretien all the surplus automatically went to into additional debt repayment. Ideally you'd want debt servicing entirely costed into the budget such that the bottom line equals zero but barring that I'd rather have surpluses that further reduce public debt then deficits that further increase it. Regardless I still want to know where the money for that handout to Quebec is going to come from.
If anyone hasn't guessed I ####ing hate debt.
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I'm with you on that. I think that debt repayment should be worked into the budget, but it should be managed such that it is balanced. My second choice would be to have a surplus, but then I am left wondering what the heck we are paying for.