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Originally Posted by opendoor
Not to mention, headcount is kind of meaningless on its own. If that growth in employees happened because they replaced expensive contractors with employees, that's probably a net win in terms of spending .
Actual costs are a far more useful measure. And the federal expenditures on goods and services (so excluding transfers, subsidies, interest payments, etc.) is basically as low as it has ever been (expenditures to GDP):
1980: 6.2%
1990: 6.4%
2000: 5.3%
2010: 5.0%
2024: 4.9%
It got slightly lower near the end of Harper's tenure at 4.6%, but that's a pretty minor difference. And we're currently lower than at any other time in the last 60 or so years.
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Okay, but then how do you beat up on the Liberals for being bad???