Fiscal con game lives on while poor suffer

The anti-deficit fixation is a perennial smokescreen that has been a powerful rhetorical weapon of right-wing economic policy hegemony going back decades.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has been suggesting to supporters that budget deficits, and the resulting accumulated debt, are a tax on future generations. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

February 6, 2019

OTTAWA—In the next nine months, we’ll be hearing a lot about the current federal government’s budget deficit and alleged wasteful spending. So far, the deficit issue appears to pass for most of what the Conservatives would call a campaign platform, with leader Andrew Scheer suggesting, like U...

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