What Others are Saying About the Budget?

Here’s what personal finance columnists in the mainstream media and other bloggers are saying about the budget:

Mainstream Media

• Derek DeCloet writes in The Globe and Mail that you can get a capital gains benefit from the budget by buying a fishing boat. Or a tractor.
• Rob Carrick, also of The Globe and Mail, rates the budget a F, as in family-friendly.
• Jonathan Chevreau, writing in the Financial Post, calls the budget “liberal”. He also posted the highlights of the budget in his blog.
• James Daw of the Toronto Star notes the lack of a further cut to the GST.

Bloggers

• Canadian Dream highlighted three little noticed items from the budget.
• With four kids, Canadian Financial Stuff cleaned up big in yesterday’s budget.
• Million Dollar Journey personally found the budget disappointing.
• Investoid points out the important aspects of the budget.
• Frugal Canadian highlights how the budget affects us from an income tax perspective.
• Larry MacDonald of the Investment Ideas blog totals out the cost of initiatives in the budget.
• Middle Class Millionaire points out the bad and the good in Budget 2007.

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