Ottawa’s Spending Binge Is Killing Growth

Ottawa’s Spending Binge Is Killing Growth

From the Frontier Centre for Public Policy By Ian Madsen The government spends more every year, but your standard of living hardly budges. So is all that spending really working? The idea that government spending drives economic growth is not just mistaken—it’s economically destructive. Politicians routinely describe higher government spending as “stimulative” and any attempt to slow it as “austere” or anti-growth. Some even label modest increas…

Ottawa’s Spending Binge Is Killing Growth | Frontier Centre For Public Policy

Ian Madsen exposes how runaway government spending is dragging down the economy. Debt is exploding, productivity is flat, and Canadians are stuck footing the bill.