Definitely chip away at the debt. A surplus means we're deficit free, not necessarily debt free.
What to do with surpluses?
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Definitely chip away at the debt. A surplus means we're deficit free, not necessarily debt free.
I'm on board with that, but it shouldn't be at the expense of social programs such as healthcare, education, seniors programs, and vets programs. Martin tried that and now healthcare has taken a massive dive. Canada used to be ranked 5th in the world and within 3 years it tumbled to 39th. Nurses have to deal with scissors that don't cut, patients' meals that are 1/3 the value of convicts meals, etc. (Wifey recently blew out her rotator cuff and is getting an unwelcome eye-opener about healthcare management in BC). Canada's gov'ts seem to be fond of management positions and shy on workers that actually accomplish the work.
The economy will improve when the energy trade deficit is eliminated and we are 100% home sourced and cheap.
That's when we'll see the GST disappear and income tax lowered.
Our economy has been better than the US's despite having higher taxes so the evidence that low taxes = better economy is sketchy at best
No, clearly you don't
Nobody has suggested that. Nice try though
No tax reduction until the debt (not the deficit) is paid off. What kind of liberal are you?!
A good analogy for Social Programs would be like Cranberry sauce on the Xmas turkey! Nice to have when everything else is paid up.
Somalia. I wonder why those that rail against any and all programs don't just move there. It is, after all, their ideal
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99.999999% of the people on the planet are on record as being either correctly dead or alive. Messrs Hoffa and D.B. Cooper are a couple of exceptions. With computer technology people are easy to track at minimal expense. Somehow this kid was missed and it WASN'T due to lack of funds. Some bureaucrat was sitting around with his/her finger up the ying yang.
Exactly- I know, speaking for myself, when I spend money there is far less waste than when the Gov't. spends it as I have priorites that goes like this, pay bills, buy grub, pay utilities, fund housing, fund H.H. expenses, medical and grooming, fun.
BINGO- Two relevant things, enacting legislation and being a watchdog for the helpless.
The Olympics, G8 and G20 Conferences, NATO, SEATO, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, etc. etc. etc.
In times of debt, spending should be focussed on bread and butter matters, and not this fluff.
So the dude with the broken arm can teach his own kids with the textbooks he bought with the money he worked for .......... ooops, except the books were nicked and instead of teaching his kids, he has to detect, catch, and punish the perps himself and that's after he builds the road to the store with the books. And in the meantime, your neighbor hit your car and knocked out the corner of your house and now it's on fire. Yeah, we don't need gov't for anything.
Stuff Jerry n Heather Average has no use for .... right.
I agree.
What? How else are high-ranking diplomats supposed to show how important they are in the news?
"It's really not my fault that the concept of sarcasm is completely beyond your grasp"
Nice try, Cannuck, not really so much beyond my grasp, more within the realm of recognition, which I tend to ignore, as a wise man once said "Sarcasm is a weapon of the weak". -
