The federal deficit according to Andrew Coyne | National Post

Andrew Coyne: This is why we shouldn’t just chill out over the federal deficit. Some economists are suggesting that we let go of our irrational deficit-phobia.Getty Images

James Andrew Coyne is a Canadian columnist with the National Post and a member of the At Issue panel on CBC’s The National. Previously, I’ve been a national editor for Maclean’s and a columnist with The Globe and Mail.

Coyne in one of his most recent articles for the National Post has given his point of view regarding the federal deficit. In fact, he has titled his article as “That’s why we should not simply relax about the federal deficit.”

He also said, “If it is too easy to compare the deficits of current tamers with those of the past, it is also too easy to forget how quickly these past deficits went out of control.”

Coyne has expressed that he grew up with the federal deficit and likewise emphasized that today he still keeps the fiscal scars to prove it. Where he states that for twenty-seven consecutive years the federal government registered deficits, of which 21 exceeded three percent of GDP. Being in its heyday, during the fiscal year of 1985, where it obtained a “nightmare” of 8.3 percent.

Similarly, Coyne suggests that perhaps as well as how some of his generation still lives in the past trapped in an irrational phobia of deficit born during his youth. In addition to this, he said that we should possibly pay attention to the suggestions that have been slightly given by various economists, which is that we must let it go.

Why should attention be paid to such suggestions?

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Source: National Post