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Harper and the illusion of economic management
Sunday, May 1st, 2011
May 01 2011
… the Conservatives… are putting forward the same market fundamentalist policies that have taken countries time and again to the brink of economic disaster: • Tax cuts that will benefit the wealthiest and boost corporations’ bottom lines, but do nothing to spur investment in manufacturing or increase the growth of full-time jobs. • “Cost efficiency savings” that will mean the roughly 80,000 federal public sector workers… will not be replaced… • “Smaller government” that will mean fewer public services and that Canada will continue to have one of the worst records of rising inequality and poverty…
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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