Ford opens door on 3% tax hike | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto SunAfter promising to not raise taxes or cut services, and, after finding that there is/was no waste at City Hall, and, after squandering over $533 million, Rob Ford is eyeing raising …
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On the Ontario PCs’ platform
[Sorry for the double-post. Had some unfixable errors in the previous version.]So, here we go with the Ontario PC Platform, the Changebook (warning: PDF). Or is that the Change Book? ChangeBook? I don’t know, and I don’t think they do, either.According…
Continue readingOn the Ontario PCs’ platform.
So, here we go with the Ontario PC Platform, the Changebook. Or is that the Change Book? ChangeBook? I don’t know, and I don’t think they do, either.According to this, Tim Hudak was a Customs Officer at the Peace Bridge. I knew there was a good reason …
Continue readingOn the Ontario NDP’s 2011 platform.
Okay. The Ontario NDP’s platform. The Plan for Affordable Change (warning: PDF). Jeez, focus-group that name much? I’m splitting this into the four areas that the ONDP did in the platform, for ease of reference.1. Making life affordableYou mean it’s no…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Janyce McGregor’s article on the perils of Senate reform is well worth a read in general. But let’s particularly highlight an issue I’ve raised before – if one which is no less glaring in the absence of …
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: I, for one, would like an HST job – and it might sway my vote.
If you’re registered to vote in BC, and provided that Elections BC hasn’t completely screwed up your voter registration (I have, at times, received three voter information cards for variations on my name), you’ve probably by now received a ballot in the mail for the mail-in referendum on the HST in BC. (If you haven’t […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Hoarders: Corporate Cash Edition
One of the main issues of contention in the debate over continued corporate tax slashing has been the question of what the business sector will do with more free money. And Erin’s post makes it clear just how much capacity has already been taken out of…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Jackson points out and sums up a Statistics Canada study showing how much possible revenue is lost to the underground economy:Statscan have produced interesting and important new estimates of the upper b…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Republicans Unrealistic
You
think that the Republicans would be serious about reducing he deficit
that they should look at ways to reduce the deficit without hurting the
economy too bad. John Boehner is again sticking with the idea that as
long as millionaires …
Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that (with a B.C. flavour) for your Tuesday reading.- Yes, the CCPA’s report showing that taxes in British Columbia are downright regressive is stunning enough on its face. But the real story may lie in the response of the province’s finance m…
Continue readingA Proposal for Higher Taxes on the Wealthy
A PROPOSAL FOR HIGHER TAXES ON THE WEALTHYProposed by Matt Fodor, TorontoDate: 26/06/2011For consideration for inclusion in the platform at the pre-election Policy AssemblyWHEREAS the increase in incomes of the top 1% of income earners has been the mai…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: The Pawlenty Plan Part 2
First the U.S will spend 3.8 Trillion this year. Let’s say Pawlenty’s plan would only cost 380 billion then you add that with 1.6 trillion you have a approximate 2.0 trillion dollar deficit. Even if you reduce the deficit to 1.9 trillion, because o…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: The Pawlenty Plan Part 1
Republicans talk about how the government is broke and we can’t afford to continue to spend the way are spending. In the video Pawlenty sent to declare his candidacy he said “Are country is in big trouble we have far too much debt” (watch here). In Paw…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Rhys Kesselman rightly points out how the populist message that propelled the Cons to power has given way to elitist policy-making:Once the federal budget is balanced, the Conservatives plan to double the TFS…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
A variety of content for your weekend reading.- The Lethbridge Herald nicely points out who figures to have a problem with Stephen Harper’s decision to have the Canadian public pay tens of thousands of dollars to send him to Game 4 of the Stanley Cup F…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- With health care once again receiving plenty of attention on the U.S. political scene thanks to the Republicans’ plan to dismantle publicly-funded Medicare, the differences between Canada and the U.S. are once a…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Harperites Tax Policies Aggravate Gap Between rich and Poor
Toronto Star The full story
In addition to the weaknesses noted below in Les Whittington piece, one could also ask how effective is an accelerated reduction of the federal debt in creating jobs for Canadians? Since the Harperites are already shrinking…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Fiscally Reposible? Yeah Right
The Conservatives are going to reduce the Corporate taxes by more for next year. If this years budget passes (which of course it will) the corporate taxes will be 16.5% the next year the Harper Government wants to reduce it to 15%. The cost for these c…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: TFSAs and progressive savings policies
With Harper’s majority secured, it is quite likely that the popular Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSA’s) will double the allowable contributions to $10k per year by 2014. There is a considerable benefit to policies that encourage higher savings rates but…
Continue readingDemocratic Progress: Contrasts in Leadership
Doug Saunders tweets that the new UK budget says: “UK will cut corporate tax by 1% a year for 3 years, to 23%… and the bank-profit levy will be raised each year to offset the loss of corporate taxes.”
This is really good, and a solid contrast with t…
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