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- From: jstewart@alfred.carleton.ca (John Stewart)
- Subject: Re: Deficit, Deficit, who's got the Deficit? was: NDP "communism?"
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- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <jstewart.727892428@cunews> <C1Epw1.IAH@mach1.wlu.ca> <jstewart.727977919@cunews> <1993Jan25.182008.11320@csi.uottawa.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:47:14 GMT
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- In <1993Jan25.182008.11320@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
- >As Doug already mentioned, equalization payments amount to
- >approximately one third of the Federal budget. Those payments have
- >been increasing by between 10% and 15% per year, for quite a while
- >now. In order for the Feds to be able to continue this increase, YOUR
- >TAXES have to rise by between 3% and 5% every year, just to cover
- >transfer payments. That ignores any growth in costs at the Federal
- >level.
-
- >It's a simple FACT. If provincial spending is going to increase by
- >15%, then that 15% has got to come from somewhere. It comes either
- >from provincial taxes, in which case that Bob Rae hits YOUR wallet, or
- >Federal transfers, which means that Don Maz. hits YOUR wallet.
- >There's no third choice. (Other than that Mayor Holtzmann or Regional
- >Chair Whatshisname hits your wallet.)
-
- >If the transfer payments were kept at their exponential increase,
- >you'd still pay, through GREATLY increased Federal taxes. There's
- >been some bad increases lately, but it could be WORSE, believe it or
- >not.
-
- I have no argument with you on those facts. You are missing my point
- however -- I'm trying to say that people in the socalled rich
- provinces can no longer afford to provide transfer payments to the poorer
- provinces, or at least we can't afford to increase them.
-
- You talk about people having to make tough chices. I believe it is only
- a matter of time before the poorer provinces are going to have
- to learn to live with fewer transfer payments.
- --
- John Stewart -- Computing and Communications Services, Carleton University
- Internet: jstewart@ccs.carleton.ca or Mr.Canoehead@algonquin.carleton.ca
- "The average middle income family with two parents and children pays $2,945
- more in Federal taxes than they would have under the tax policies in place
- before the Tories first came to power in 1984."
-