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Juanita Spencer on equalization: Pay people, not provinces
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
May 29, 2012
Such a policy requires no changes to current tax policy, constitutional authority, or even total public spending. And Canada could meet its constitutional obligation to support relatively comparable levels of services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation. Individual Canadians would simply replace provinces as program recipients. We would still cut cheques to each other, and money would still flow from region to region in net terms; but the cash would come to us, instead of going to our provincial capitals.
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