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Originally Posted by Daradon
Running a country (or a company) is not like running a household. Sometimes debt is important, crucial even. But a lot of voters don't think that way or know that.
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That's because if you're running a country and you go into debt to build infrastructure and in the process reduce unemployment, you're not just spending the money, you're saving money (on EI and welfare payments) as well as getting money from income taxes. It's not like a household budget, but that's what voters relate to.
That's what Trudeau meant when he said if you grow the economy the budget will balance itself. The attack ads took the second part out of context.