In my previous post, I mused about how much better society could be if we had fair and progressive taxation, taxation that forced those who make a lot to pay a little more. It almost seems as if such talk today is heretical, given the anti-tax mania that is cultivated
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Politics and its Discontents: A Monday Thought Experiment
As a matter of course, I allow myself one hour of television per evening, 30 minutes local and 30 minutes of either American or Canadian national news. It is a practice I highly recommend, not simply as a means of keeping up with events in this tortured world, but also
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That’s precisely what Rutger Bregman did at Davos last year: H/t Alex Himelfarb Breman talks about the reaction he received from his taxation proposal: Recommend this Post
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The old myth that tax cuts, especially of the corporate kind, create jobs, continues to be circulated. Indeed, here in Ontario, PC leader Doug Ford is promising to reduce the corporate rate from the already historically-low 11.5% to 10.5% “to bring jobs back to Ontario.” In Australia The Canberra Times’
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Seeking Some Substance – Part 2
In Part 1, I tried to establish that there is a gross discrepancy between the rhetoric and the reality of Justin Trudeau’s promise to makie sure corporations pay their fair share. Indeed, if truth be told, his government has done little or nothing to alter the CRA ethos, imposed during
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In yesterday’s Star, Christopher Hume had occasion to call Prime Minister Trudeau the princeling practitioner of the politics of appearance. In light of an alarming shortfall in revenues that is crippling our services thanks to the government’s anemic corporate tax policies, that struck me as a particularly apt description. Indeed,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Mature Discussion About The Fiscal Cliff
Mature, that is, until CNBC’s Rick Santelli opens his mouth: Recommend this Post
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