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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> <1993Jan25.163624.18867@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:18:44 GMT
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- In <1993Jan25.163624.18867@Princeton.EDU> nfs@volkl (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
-
- >In article <jstewart.727977919@cunews> jstewart@alfred.carleton.ca (John Stewart) writes:
- >>
- >>I think the problem is that your fancy equilization formula doesn't
- >>take into account the higher expenses of living in Ontario. We
- >>would need a lot less money to attain the same livestyle in one of
- >>the porrer provinces.
-
- >Well, there's always a simple solution. Why don't you write to Bob
- >Rae and suggest he pass legislation cutting the price of houses in
- >half? That should solve the "higher expenses of living in Ontario"
- >problem.
-
- House prices have dropped in some areas, most notably Toronto, and prices
- are stagnant just about everywhere else in Ontario.
-
- This is just another example of the decrease in wealth in Ontario.
- When houses appreciated in value at a rate well beyond the rate of
- inflation people at least had the satisfaction of knowing that
- they were increasing their wealth even if their entire income was
- being spent on basic necessities and taxes. Now that prices are
- stagnant (and likely to remain so for many years), a house can no longer
- be viewed as an investment.
-
- We ddidn't get into the house market until it was near its peak. I wish
- I had been born 10 years earlier! :-)
- --
- 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."
-