• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    You’re falling into something akin to the broken window fallacy. Economic resources aren’t created or destroyed by incentives, they are shifted. If that tax break didn’t exist those loans, employees, potential capital etc… would be doing something else. Tax breaks need to be extremely precisely honed to avoid lowering future income.

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      1 year ago

      Economic growth doesn’t happen on its own. The Canadian economy isn’t some entity that magically sees growth without investment.