“Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” This quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is the motto of Canadians for Tax Fairness, an organization that “advocates for fair and progressive tax policies aimed at building a strong and sustainable economy, reducing inequalities and funding quality public services.”
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Politics and its Discontents: Have You Signed Yet?
Despite all of his sanctimonious talk about tax fairness, there is little evidence thus far that Justin Trudeau is committed to anything more than indulging in his standard soaring rhetoric. Now, there is a a petition being circulated on Change.org. that seeks to change that. As reported in today’s Star,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: We Are All Capuchin Monkeys
Or at least I suspect we will feel like the one on the left in the following video, once the Panama papers releases its database of tax cheats and avoiders this afternoon.Recommend this Post
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Real Test: Tax Fairness
Murray Dobbin writes that there has been a palpable change in Ottawa — a change which he applauds:I feel the same relief as every other Canadian that public scientists can now speak their minds, that Harper’s war-mongering is history, that we are ov…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Canada’s failed experiment with corporate income tax cuts
After a generation of comparatively high corporate income tax (CIT) rates, in the late 1980s Canadian governments at the federal and provincial levels began a series of corporate income tax reforms. According to many mainstream (‘neoclassical’) economists, reducing CIT rates was a wise public policy. A reduced CIT rate
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Gimme that Old-Time Religion #nlpoli
Kim Keating is the president of the St. John’s Board of Trade this year. In her Telegram column on Saturday, Keating offered some advice to the provincial government about the upcoming budget and taxes. “As the voice of business, the St. John’s Board of Trade does not support tax increases.”
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Is Harper right? Did corporate tax cuts really pay for themselves?
In a little noticed comment, Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently was reported to say: “Dropping our tax rate has not caused the government’s corporate income tax revenues to fall, which indicates that it does in fact attract business.” No one seems to have questioned his statement, even though it was
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Debunking Fraser Institute’s latest contortion on taxes
The Fraser Institute’s annual Consumer Tax Index report generated some media buzz with its outlandish claims about just how much taxes have risen since 1961. Before you get worked up about this, consider that 1961 was over half a century ago, before the time of universal health care that we
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Are average Canadians paying too much in taxes?
On April 23, the Fraser Institute released the annual update of their misleading Consumer Tax Index report. The piece is meant to feed the anti-tax sentiment with numbers sprinkled liberally for their shock value instead of providing any meaningful analysis. Here are some of the main flaws with the report’s
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Michael Ignatieff on the Politics of Fairness
Many of the worst excesses of the age of greed occurred in markets that were anything but free, anything but transparent. Government must be there to clean up markets riven by fraud, corruption, insider trading and toxic products that made risk systemic. Competition demands that governments are prepared to use
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Know the issues, act on the facts.
In the October edition of the Labour Reporter you’ll find details about some of the things that we’ve been up to over the summer. You’ll have a chance to read about the recent SFL Summer Camp, the progress of Station 20 West, and the recent memor…
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Stanford – CCPA
CAW Economist Jim Stanford exposes the Big Conservative/Corporate Lie. The truth and the facts are that corporate tax cuts do not stimulate the economy and do not generate jobs and investment.
Corporate tax cuts economically ineffective
National O…
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: We get 30 cents back – People for Corporate Tax Cuts, Canada
People for Corporate Tax Cuts – Canada
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Global financial crisis/recovery: What does it mean for Saskatchewan?
Global financial crisis/recovery: What does it mean for Saskatchewan?
– by Dr. Simon Enoch, Director of the Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
These remarks were delivered to the Saskatchewan CED and Co-operatives Conf…
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Stephen Harper is working hard – People for Corporate Tax Cuts Canada
People for Corporate Tax Cuts Canada
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Harper’s Hitlist: Power, Process and the Assault on Democracy – Dobbin
The following is reproduced from the Council of Canadians website:
Stephen Harper’s Assault on Democracy
Author and Rabble.ca columnist Murray Dobbin details the harm Prime Minister Stephen Harper is doing to the political and social fabric of C…
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: The "Other Saskatchewan" – CCPA
Reproduced below is a 2011 Saskatchewan Budget Response by Dr. Simon Enoch, CCPA Saskatchewan:
The “Other Saskatchewan”
A Budget Response by CCPA Saskatchewan
by Simon Enoch
March 24, 2011
If yesterday’s budget was designed to give somethin…
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