UK Taxpayers Alliance Launches Debt Clock Tour
The UK’s Taxpayers Alliance (good people) have launched a national Debt Clock tour to bring attention to that country’s mounting level deficit financing.
To highlight the crushing size of the national debt, the TaxPayers’ Alliance is launching a 1,300 mile tour of Britain – featuring a 7 metre long, lorry-mounted digital Debt clock, ticking [...]
April 7, 2010
Tags: Debt, Debt Clock, debtclock.ca, Great Britain, Taxpayers Alliance, UK, UK Election, UKIP, United Kingdom Posted in: Blog Content 
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Audio: John Robson on DebtClock.ca
John Robson (hats off) shoots dead centre at the federal government’s Keynesian deficit financing, citing the CTF’s DebtClock.ca . Listen to Robson on CFRA HERE.
February 26, 2010
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Video: Canada’s Debt History
Watch this short video by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and pass it on. Email it to your friends, share it on Facebook and post it on your blog.
February 25, 2010
Tags: Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Debt, Debt Clock, debtclock.ca, Deficits, Economic Action Plan, Stimulus Posted in: Blog Content Comments Closed
CBC Poll: 65% of Canadians Support Spending Cuts
65% of Canadians support spending cuts to tax hikes or continued large deficits according to a new CBC poll, not accounting for those who either did not express an opinion or did not know. In this vein, 20% supported higher taxes to balance the budget and just under 15% supported the continuation of large deficits. [...]
February 12, 2010
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Harper Calls Chrétien More Conservative than Mulroney
“The [former] Liberal government is more conservative on most issues than the [earlier] Progressive Conservative government. Whatever the Liberals [did] seem[ed] moderate because [we] urge[d] them to go further and faster. Conservative voters [got] better results as outsiders influencing a Liberal government than they did as an inside influence within a Progressive Conservative government.”
Well, that’s [...]
December 15, 2009
Tags: Brian Mulroney, Conservative, Debt, Deficit, Jean Chrétien, Our Benign Dictatorship, Tom Flanagan Posted in: Blog Content Comments Closed
Published in Report Magazine ~ Stop Digging: The size of the debt is only half the story. It’s the rate of its growth, and the inability of government to reverse it that will bury us.
The following article appears in the Fall 2009 issue of Report Magazine.
What a difference a few months can make. In last October’s federal election, both parties contending for power – Liberal and Conservative – and even the opposition parties – NDP, Bloc Québécois and Greens – all pledged to support balanced budgets. Fast forward a [...]
November 6, 2009
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Harper Government’s New Debt vs. Debt Repayments
Politicians in the current government are often caught appeasing deficit weary Canadians by assuring us that they paid down loads of debt before turning on the taps of “stimulus”. Well how true is this claim? Bunk. At least according to you know, facts.
Below is a calculation by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, spelling out exactly how [...]
October 14, 2009
Tags: Canadian Taxpayers Federation, CTF, Debt, Debt Clock, debtclock.ca, Deficit Posted in: Blog Content One Comment
