This or That

Budgets are about choices, they reflect a government's values and priorities. With a $250 billion federal budget, the Harper Government could choose to invest in programs like universal child care or pharmacare... or spend that money on corporate tax cuts, prisons, and fighter jets.

We've created this video and a poster to help illustrate the choices between this and that. Which would you choose?

See the poster in English and French here: http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/this-or-that-which-would-yo...

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[leddsaliva]

I thing y'all are talking about two different things that are loosely connected. Watch this doc to see why regulation spurred 40 years of economic growth and deregulation reversed it as scheming greed took over real productivity: watch?v=iFfTcAcGjcU

[CmacD87]

a drought would be handled by the market because in a market more goods come from more places. supply will meet demand as best possible, far better than any central planning could do, and history proves that. Trade has always existed, that the market. thanks to markets we are growing faster in the last 100 years than EVER before. these are not people? How little respect for human rights you have. these people employ many, and in return you think they should be stripped of rights. Lovely.

[turgore]

@MrLibertea these are not people. These are large scale exploitation machines- it is the few at the top who get the money. Marketplace is fine but sometimes it needs intervention. Let's say a drought happens. The government redistributed resources in case of emergency. Now people have food to eat. What about in a market But economy ? Everyone starves. A market economy is still fairly new- thousands of years tops. Before this humans lived MILLIONS of years in tribe like societies.

[MrLibertea]

@turgore yeah, I believe people should keep more of their own money. i don't need government to punish people for being productive. I trust the market, a system of voluntary transaction/bargaining over a government, a system of force. How insane of me!

[turgore]

@dunstanmorey maybe we shouldn't have a summit in the first place.

[turgore]

@MrLibertea so you are in favor of corporate tax breaks ? wow. you need to get yourself checked.

[MrLibertea]

Neither for all of the above, except for corporate tax breaks. The rest of it is just a bunch of special interests demanding more , even though it will solve nothing and only serve to impoverish us all.

[ThinkingManNeil]

Very well done; illustrates nicely the choice between an humane, progressive future that benefits all Canadians and a dystopian, corporatist police state.

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[ruthay069]

Great job ;)

[dunstanmorey]

Nothing wrong with spending money on security - let's try and keep it in line with other G20 countries, who all came in at about 10% of the amount of money we spent. (It also would be nice if we got something for all that money - for instance, if the cops had actually prevented crime instead of brutalizing a thousand poor schmucks who couldn't run away fast enough.)