Government Business Grants
Some successful government programs leap immediately to my mind — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, Pell grants for college students, Small Business Administration loans, the Interstate highway system. If you want to go back a while, how about the New Deal projects of the 1930s that put people to work on building projects...
The B.C. government has tabled a tough, stay-the-course budget intended to cap spending, sell off “non-strategic assets” and rein in the deficit with very few handouts to taxpayers or businesses on Tuesday. Finance Minister Kevin Falcon said the “fiscally prudent” budget would limit overall spending increases to two per cent in coming years and...