The theme seems to be “reduce operating spending, increase capital spending”. We’ll see how that will blow over with the opposition.

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    Dollars are not scarce items; the government can issue currency essentially at will.

    Edit: You CAN drink a small amount of bleach. Just like you CAN print money during a generational event.

    A small amount of bleach will burn a bit. A small amount of printing money caused inflation that we also haven’t seen in decades. It hurts families now but that’s the price we paid to help during covid.

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          Sorry, but if the first claim is that government spending is inflationary, then there’s no way to claim that taxes aren’t disinflationary.

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            Lol, wait, what?

            Just… Walk me through how you think this would work, say as Canada’s inflation rate hit 8% in summer 2022. Who would you have taxed, what would you have done with said taxes and why you think this would somehow lower inflation?