Federal Austerity: Program Spending Cut

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$15.50B CAD (revenue)

Fiscal Impact

Immediate (weeks–months)

Time Horizon

Not assessed

Implementation Risk

Epoch 27

Continuum Entry

Overview

Fiscal hawks prevail: $15.5B cut to discretionary federal spending. Chain: direct_program_spending -> budgetary_balance (immediate, +$15.5B improvement) AND gdp_growth (-0.13, delay 1). Classic austerity tradeoff: deficit shrinks but growth slows.

Ducklings Simulation

This proposal is active in the Ducklings causal simulation (Epoch 27). The simulation models downstream effects using a BFS cascade engine with strength-weighted, time-delayed edges capped at 3-hop depth and ±25% per-hop limits. Cascade outputs are bounded by variable saturation thresholds.

Domain: Fiscal Policy | Proposal ID: 71 | Series: Continuum

How to Engage

Discuss this flightplan in the Pond forum under Fiscal Policy. Vote on adoption through Consensus. Adopted flightplans become projects with real-world implementation tracking.

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