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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Eh, young or old, I think people kind of get flummoxed when numbers this big are involved. It's kind of hard for most people to think in terms of the budget of a reasonably large country like Canada, with numbers like hundreds of millions, billions, a trillion, etc. being thrown around. Numbers that sound huge really don't end up being much.
It's like asking someone to guess how tall a building is and express it only in millimetres.
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In both cases those are just a framing problem. If you want to estimate a building in mm first you should estimate it in metres and then multiply by a thousand.
If you want to understand the impact of billions of dollars of spending/benefits in Canada I think it's helpful to think about it on a per-person basis (ie, if you cut $2 billion in profits out of the system that's a savings of $50 per person).