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Matthew Lau: How much will taxpayers lose in budget roulette?

On TV game shows, participants are excited about what they might win. Waiting for budgets, taxpayers dread what they'll have to pay next

In some game shows, contestants try to guess the value of the prizes they might win. With the federal budget due Nov. 5, it’s the opposite, as taxpayers are left to guess how much we are going to lose. It is a guessing game because the Liberal government’s past fiscal projections have proven thoroughly unreliable. Whatever the government says it will spend, the actual cost comes in much higher.

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