How we fund things

If we want anything from our governments – roads, drinkable water, an education system, health care, a pipeline, postal service, safe working conditions, air traffic control, security – we have to pay for it. Governments fund these things through taxation, charging royalties on publicly-owned resources, borrowing, or, in the case of the federal government, creating money. This first of those three things seem to be things most political parties campaign against, meaning that they often add “tax cuts, royalty exemptions, and deficit reduction” to the list. .

What about the fourth?

Read Dougald Lamont and let’s talk about this. Because the problems we are having aren’t due to underfunding.