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Here’s the right way to reform health care

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Apr. 19, 2011
The government that emerges after May 2 should sponsor a major national inquiry into the future of Canadian health care and health insurance… Canada has a tradition of making major reforms in public policy based on the recommendations of royal commissions… The overwhelming merit of a good royal commission is that it can supply governments and voters with well-thought-out policy recommendations… At the least, it might cause us to have a serious discussion of serious issues the next time we’re asked to go to the polls.

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Taxing the über-rich would reduce the deficit and social resentment

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010.

Inequality of compensation has soared in our time, as the rich have become much richer and much less taxed. Higher taxes on high incomes would begin to narrow the immense chasm that has opened up between the über-rich and the ordinary North American.

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