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Article: Economic and fiscal developments in New Brunswick. (Canada)
- Article from:
- Tax Executive
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
- Author:
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What is going on in New Brunswick is inextricably linked to developments at the national, and indeed at times, the international level. The government deficit and debt situation is not a new phenomenon. It has been at least a decade in the making, and it took the latest recession to bring attention to a significant "structural" problem that had been imbedded in government finances since the late 1970s. A structural problem exists when the long run spending growth rate is greater than the capacity of the economy.
The government's financial position has been a net penalty to the remainder of society because current and future key social programs are robbed by ...