Comments on: Opps http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/opps/ One Damn Thing Leads to Another Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:58:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Chris Currie http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/opps/#comment-19869 Chris Currie Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:17:28 +0000 http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/opps/#comment-19869 I am firmly in the "pay off the debt" camp. Go Harper! A Liberal government would have spent it all, and not on tax breaks, either. I am firmly in the “pay off the debt” camp. Go Harper! A Liberal government would have spent it all, and not on tax breaks, either.

]]> By: Alan http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/opps/#comment-19399 Alan Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:19:45 +0000 http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/opps/#comment-19399 But there is debt and debt. A whack of it is unfunded federal superannuation, a whack Canada savings bond and other bond obligations, another whack domestic commercial debenture instruments. Canada's debt is very stable and largely controllable by the feds within their own regulatory jruisdiction...unlike the US. Maybe 50-50 split is not such a bad idea. But there is debt and debt. A whack of it is unfunded federal superannuation, a whack Canada savings bond and other bond obligations, another whack domestic commercial debenture instruments. Canada’s debt is very stable and largely controllable by the feds within their own regulatory jruisdiction…unlike the US. Maybe 50-50 split is not such a bad idea.

]]> By: Jason Hickman http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/opps/#comment-19377 Jason Hickman Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:37:58 +0000 http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/opps/#comment-19377 I suppose ... but aren't they putting the $14B into debt reduction, and the $725M in tax cuts is coming from savings on interest payments? Hey, I'd be as happy as the next person to have lower taxes and I think this shows the feds have the room to do so. But when they do come up with a surplus, I can think of worse uses for it than paying down debt. I suppose … but aren’t they putting the $14B into debt reduction, and the $725M in tax cuts is coming from savings on interest payments?

Hey, I’d be as happy as the next person to have lower taxes and I think this shows the feds have the room to do so. But when they do come up with a surplus, I can think of worse uses for it than paying down debt.

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