DrCaleb DrCaleb:
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DrCaleb DrCaleb:
You'd think they'd think of 'cut spending', but that would be something a real conservative would do.
Where?
Everywhere. People like to laugh at King Ralph, but he did get us back in the black ink. The cuts were hard, and unilateral. And then he cut 5% more. That's how to eliminate the debt. No different than if it were your own household.
The difference seems to be, if the article's claims are true, that the overwhelming majority (71%) of the federal budget is transfers to provinces and debt servicing. There's only 21% from which to cut that's really federal services (the rest being defence), and that they'd have to cut it all entirely out just to eke out a $3 billion surplus.
The provinces actually deliver services like education and health care and public infrastructure that cost big bucks (cities too), where cuts to services can be made to effect actual budgetary change.
To refine the household analogy, the kids are the provinces, the parents are the feds, and for mom and dad to fix their budget, the easiest way is to go after the allowance.