Budgets gouvernementaux
Lily Eggink
Candidat du PHC dans votre circonscription-
The CHP would pay off our national debt like a household mortgage and eliminate this drain on our operating budget. We would also institute mandatory balanced budgets.
• Canada’s federal debt is over $1.2 trillion and growing.
• Interest on that debt is $125 million every dingle day!
• Spending money we don’t have is stealing from our
grandchildren who will have to pay it back.
• Politicians are spending money they don’t have and using to “buy
votes”. This is immoral.
• The CHP would pay down the debt and introduce Mandatory
Balanced Budgets; NO deficit spending!
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Just as in our own households, the health of the national economy is
negatively influenced by debt. At the time of this writing, the federal
government owes over $1.2 trillion in debt as a result of accumulative
deficit spending. This is in addition to provincial debt, municipal debt
and household debt. Taxpayers are currently paying about $125 million
in interest on the federal debt every single day!
This debt is the accumulated result of years of vote-buying by the two
largest federal parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives. We say votebuying because both parties try to influence voters by promising to
spend money for the things they think they want. Once elected, these
parties spend money they don’t have, especially before elections.
Governments actually do not have ANY money. They only have what
they can collect in taxes and what they can borrow on international
markets. The difference between the money they can raise through
taxation and the money they actually spend in a given year is called the
annual deficit (or if they spend wisely and do not spend all the tax
money, it is called a surplus). Canada’s national debt is an accumulation
of annual deficits.
The Liberals and the socialist New Democrats have long been known as
spendthrift money managers and the current government is no
exception. What is not widely known is that the last Conservative
government, which was in power for 9 years, also added significantly to
the national debt…close to $150 billion! No matter what measure you
use, that is not balancing the budget!
Since 1990, we have spent over ONE TRILLION $ in interest alone on the
federal debt! Until we pay off the national debt, we will continue to
spend money we don’t have—our grandchildren’s money—on interest
to the international bankers.
The CHP would pay off our national debt like a household mortgage
and eliminate this drain on our operating budget. We would also
institute mandatory balanced budgets except in times of war or
national emergency to prevent this debt from ever coming back
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Ensure government debt-to-GDP declines over the budget horizon
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Maintain transfers to individuals ,like pensions, EI, and CCB payments
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Maintain transfers to provinces and territories, like Equalization, Canadian Health Transfer, Canada Social Transfer, and Territorial Formula Financing
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Maintain social programmes including $10-a-day childcare, dental care, and pharmacare