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Monday's budget plays people for fools

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Ed Hollett
Jun 02, 2021
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Budgets show us what we value.

There’s $66 million in the budget announced Monday for something called the Newfoundland and Labrador Income Supplement.  About 158,000 people across the province are eligible for it. 

That’s about one in every three residents of the province.

The Liberals set up the program in 2016 to offset some of the new taxes in the bud…

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