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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1 response so far ↓
1 Monty Loree // Mar 24, 2007 at 7:22 pm
I find that if people don’t intentionally save for their children’s education, they probably won’t.
There are always things that you can do with excess money.
If you value education for your kids, RESP’s are a good way to “emotionally” save for their education.
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