{"id":939,"date":"2023-11-29T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secteur-public-sector.ca\/?p=939"},"modified":"2024-09-02T21:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T21:26:47","slug":"pay-as-you-go-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secteur-public-sector.ca\/en\/pay-as-you-go-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"The pay-as-you-go proposal on cutting federal spending not as simple as advocates say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/magazines\/november-2023\/paygo-federal-budget\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/magazines\/november-2023\/paygo-federal-budget\/\">Original post<\/a> on November 29, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many politicians, <a href=\"https:\/\/financialpost.com\/opinion\/canada-federal-spending-is-accelerating\">advocates<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/opinion-canadians-bear-burden-of-trudeau-government-spending\">pundits<\/a> would like to discourage growth in federal government spending. Spending restraint (slower growth) or outright austerity (cuts) are legitimate paths that political parties can propose to voters. Ultimately voters choose between parties with different views on the appropriate size and role of government in the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What deserves more attention in the lead-up to the next Canadian election is the idea of legislating simple algorithms as a substitute for the exercise of accountable judgment by our elected leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While these algorithms have some political and public appeal, especially to those on the right, it\u2019s important to note the failure of similar policies in the U.S., as well as key problems that would have to be addressed in Canada that could defeat their purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>An American invention<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>American ideologues who invented these devices believe that, left to its own, the state will grow and that elected politicians will be unable or unwilling to restrain that growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have come up with a toolkit of legislation they believe forces reluctant politicians to make choices and overcome reluctance to cut back the state. Some Canadians have been attracted by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-canada-with-our-flagrant-public-spending-needs-a-debt-ceiling\/\">Debt ceilings<\/a> are one approach that we see play out at regular intervals in Washington. In theory, hitting an arbitrary ceiling on borrowing forces legislators to confront choices about spending and taxing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/in-congress-sunset-clauses-are-commonly-passed-but-rarely-followed-through\/2012\/12\/15\/9d8e3ee0-43b5-11e2-8e70-e1993528222d_story.html\">Sunset clauses<\/a> on spending appropriation bills theoretically force politicians to make a fresh decision to renew or terminate a spending authority when it expires.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/government\/system\/laws\/developing-improving-federal-regulations\/requirements-developing-managing-reviewing-regulations\/backgrounder-legislating-one-for-one-rule.html\">one-for-one algorithm<\/a> says a new regulation can be issued only if another is repealed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet another of these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxpolicycenter.org\/briefing-book\/what-paygo\">American imports<\/a> \u2013 \u201cpay-as-you-go legislation\u201d often shortened to \u201cpay-go\u201d \u2013 has entered the next Canadian federal election campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/poilievre-pay-as-you-go-budgeting-1.6497652\">via a promise<\/a> from Pierre Poilievre when he was campaigning to become Conservative Party leader. This is a simple one-for-one algorithm \u2013 in theory, for every dollar of new spending, a dollar must be cut elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presto! The growth of government spending is capped. It is one of those sound bites that appeal to some and probably tests well in focus groups, but raises a host of issues in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The real world of government spending<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The first problem is that much federal government spending is deliberately intended to grow because it is supposed to keep up with the growth in population or policy-related demographics such as the number of seniors or children or Indigenous Peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wages and <a href=\"https:\/\/lop.parl.ca\/sites\/PublicWebsite\/default\/en_CA\/ResearchPublications\/201174E\">pensions<\/a> generally track upward over time with inflation. That is why when we talk about spending, we often have to adjust to \u201creal\u201d dollars, convert to per-capita spending or look at spending relative to the size of the overall economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what should count as \u201cnew spending\u201d in the algorithm of pay-go legislation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would it include the indexing to inflation and population growth that pushes up annual spending on old age pensions or veterans\u2019 allowances? Would similar growth escalators in federal transfers to the provinces and territories for health care be \u201cnew\u201d spending?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about the allocations to health, education and child welfare services on First Nations territories as Indigenous populations grow? Pay for the military and the RCMP? Payments to farmers for crop failures? Payments under disaster relief programs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see the problem. That is why politicians who craft pay-go legislation inevitably insert a range of exemptions into its algorithm to placate stakeholders and deny their opponents an obvious stick to use against them. \u201cDon\u2019t worry, the new law doesn\u2019t affect you. We mean spending on someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, would the spending envelope for defence, security, intelligence and border security going be exempt or cut? What about spending on Indigenous services?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The more exemptions \u2013 either explicitly in the initial legislation or through political backtracking \u2013 the less meaningful the legislation becomes. It could also become more distortive the further one moves away from \u201ca dollar is a dollar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is because the next problem in pay-go is how to decide what the offsetting cut in other spending should be. It won\u2019t be in the programs and transfers that were exempted. The pay-go algorithm has pre-imposed a judgment about what is the cuttable part of government spending. But it isn\u2019t very helpful in deciding where else to cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the choices that bedevil finance ministers and spending reviews. How to allocate the cuts across programs and organizations? They strain cabinet solidarity and attract the attention of lobbyists, stakeholder groups and other levels of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The approaches in pay-go legislation are far too simplistic<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One variation of pay-go is to say if Minister A wants to spend more, they have to find offsetting cuts in their portfolio. But that portfolio may genuinely need augmentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another approach is to add another simple mechanistic sub-algorithm where everything on the cuttable side of the pay-go algorithm is frozen or cut by the same percentage. This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/s\/sequestration.asp\">sequestration<\/a> you hear about in American news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the U.S., they go through a constant Groundhog Day rhetorical battle about social security and defence spending that is never resolved. It won\u2019t be easier in Canada where 70 per cent of federal spending is transfers to individuals or other levels of government, all of whom would put up fierce resistance to proposed cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A strain on cabinet solidarity<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In Canada, there would be an inevitable drift of any pay-go algorithm toward cutting operating budgets and federal organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless the government contemplated wage freezes, there would soon be a further crowding out within operating budgets that would steadily erode investments in training and technology and thin out internal controls and internal services. Over time, the chances that the right people would be allocated to the right priorities would go down and the delivery capacity of the state would erode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theory behind pay-go legislation is that it forces reluctant politicians to face uncomfortable choices. But in practice in Canada, who would get to make the decisions that the algorithm requires?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Major changes to spending patterns in Canada normally occur in the annual federal budget or in some version of a formal spending review such as the 1990s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigionline.org\/publications\/program-review-government-canadas-experience-eliminating-deficit-1994-1999-canadian\/\">program review<\/a> or the 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.budget.canada.ca\/2012\/plan\/chap5-eng.html\">deficit reduction action plan<\/a>. It seems most likely that pay-go would be another complication for the minister of finance in the weeks before a budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The political dynamics within any government are strained when it has to consider cuts. Would cabinet and caucus colleagues get to weigh in on decisions that affect them as a team? Who would make the call on what is \u201cfair\u201d or politically astute? Ministers and MPs are always hypersensitive to the geographic distribution of cuts, as they should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strain on cabinet solidarity under pay-go could be immense. If the growth that drove the need to make cuts came from minister and Department A, how would the stakeholders of the minister and Department B react to being affected?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest problem with algorithms is that they almost never work as intended. In American practice, bringing politicians to the brink of automatic debt default or triggering automatic cuts to programs (sequestering) does not work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 13 years in a row, Congress has never allowed the cuts mandated by 2010 pay-go legislation to come into effect, by always passing a waiver. All the legislation did was create artificial crises and political theatre, contribute to polarizing wedge politics instead of compromise, and drain energy away from debating serious reforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After more than a decade of pay-go, successive American congresses are no closer to taking on serious reform of federal spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Is it all just for show, or to create chaos?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two interpretations of what pay-go legislation could mean in Canada. One is that the proponents know it is just for show \u2013 a form of fiscal virtue signalling \u2013 and they have no intention of applying it with any rigour. The future would be full of exemptions, waivers and extensions. It makes the base happy and looks like decisiveness. But it isn\u2019t serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other possibility is that it is serious and would at regular intervals create a hot mess for future governments and for future fiscal choices. It isn\u2019t going to deliver more effective government to let an algorithm stack the deck, distort the options, create unnecessary and artificial crises, and stealthily erode those parts of government that don\u2019t have political and media champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, which is it \u2013 empty virtue signalling or a hot mess of fiscal distortion? We can do better, either way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any political party that wants to take real action on restraining spending should do it in a serious way: Let Canadians know before the election what it considers cuttable and what it considers a priority. Once in office set up a deliberative process. The 1990s program review would be my starting point for designing the next one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is essential and what is discretionary in government spending is a political judgment informed by ideologies and values \u2013 a judgment that must be responsive over time to new facts and realities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many better ways for democratically elected politicians to approach spending restraint and to achieve it. Pay-go legislation isn\u2019t a good one and should be discarded before the platforms for the next election are written \u2013 after which it will be difficult to turn back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many politicians, advocates and pundits would like to discourage growth in federal government spending. Spending restraint (slower growth) or outright austerity (cuts) are legitimate paths that political parties can propose to voters. 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