For the most part, the Feb. 29 article on the new provincial budget uses the usual dichotomous framework for budget reporting: is it a “spending” budget or a “fiscally responsible” budget? However, this is a false dichotomy, inherent in neoliberal thinking, which hides from us the existence of a third option. To the writer’s credit, he alludes to this third way in the last four paragraphs: “missing from the budget is a tax on wealth (rather than revenue) or windfall profits.
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