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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Re: Deficit, Deficit, who's got the Deficit? was: NDP "communism?"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.213010.16347@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
- References: <jstewart.727977919@cunews> <1993Jan25.182008.11320@csi.uottawa.ca> <1993Jan25.192822.14341@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 21:30:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.192822.14341@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes:
- >In article <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.
- >
- >Technically federal to province transfers comprise about a third
- >of the federal budget...equalization payments represent only
- >about only a portion of federal transfers to provinces...about
- >20% +/- 10% of total federal transfers to provinces.
- >
- >Equalization payments are only a part of federal transfers
- >to provinces.
-
- Which means that my terminology was off. I simply should have called
- them "transfer payments." A payment by any other name still is
- painful...
-
- >>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.
-
- This conclusion doesn't change based on the name change.
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