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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Reasonable people can have a reasonable debate about whether deficit spending on any particular item is worthwhile or not, but you're making it sound like the government borrowed money for no reason and had it vanish into the ether. Come on now.
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They did send many billions of dollars to people who didn't qualify for it. There were also substantial sums that actually did basically vanish into the ether during COVID, in the sense that there was no explanation about where hundreds of millions of dollars went. Actually I don't know if we ever got a clear answer to this: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/poli...ion-last-year/
And then there's this stuff, for which I do not know if there was ultimately a good explanation:
https://twitter.com/user/status/1614671352182767617
Of course, that sort of thing has happened under other governments too.
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Last edited by CorsiHockeyLeague; 07-18-2023 at 10:04 AM.
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