Change In the Wind Blog

Please take part in this public consultation by Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance.

The survey lists five suggested areas of “economic stimulus” that you are supposed to rank, and also offers a sixth option, where you will be allowed to suggest your own priority on the form’s next page.

What I did was make my own priority #1, then listed the rest in the order of what I felt were most legitimate/least threatening to long term stability, and the least redistributive. The substance of my #1, of course, was that the government not attempt to artificially stimulate the economy, as every effort to do so requires moving assets (in the form of taxes etc) from society as a whole, or from more productive sectors, in particular, to those which are least efficient and represent the most drain on the economy.

I then ranked the others like this:

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