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FAST FACTS - Prelude to a budget

7 Apr 2004

The health-care budget expanded by $732-million, million dollar draw from the FSF amounts to 60% of the accounting for 65% of the entire increase. [...] Is this an accurate reflection of the straightjacket of the balanced budget law, which prohibits the NDP’s record? any yearly deficits and requires major tax increases to be subject Factoring out the effects of inflation, real - rather than to a referendum. [...] For a family that In catering to the tax cut lobby, the NDP has accepted earns a $100,000, the income tax difference only amounts to the argument that tax cuts are good public policy. [...] Reduced revenues, and provincial spending increases evidence that poverty (and even income inequality) increase dominated by health care, have resulted in the province the use of the health care system and so programs to combat neglecting programs aimed at improving the lives of lower poverty would actually reduce the amount the province would income Manitobans, creating a social deficit that will. [...] be over: the choices that the NDP makes in next week’s budget will determine the course of the current administration.

Authors

Doug Smith

Pages
2
Published in
Canada
Series
Fast Facts