PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

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And there's nothing wrong w/that sentiment. So long as one can intelligently lay out why that is the right decision in the here and now, preferably in a circumstance in which people are broadly content with public service quality and in which budgets are in at least modest surplus.

Otherwise the argument made should tweak to something like "We are making these choices today, so that we will be able to lower your taxes in the future" or some such thing.

And yet the reality is we get populist bribe cheques from both a Liberal and Conservative government. Governments aren't interested long term benefits; they are interested in obtaining and keeping power.