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A different sort of tax revolt
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Mar 09 2011
These protesters are not anti-tax. Rather, they are insisting that everyone, including rich individuals and corporations, pay their fair share of taxes… A public debate about taxes is urgently needed because it is fundamentally a discussion about the kind of society we want to live in. Tax policy no longer plays a role in redistributing income and wealth, and economic inequality in Canada has reached levels previously seen only in 1929. The Uncut movement appears to be the beginning of a public discussion…
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