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If fairness is the goal, Liberals should tax health and dental plans
It would, after all, tax as income a benefit that millions of Canadians are used to receiving tax-free — a break worth $2.9 billion… it probably makes sense, politically at least, for the government to use some of the revenues from ending the tax break on employer health plans to assist individuals to purchase their own. A tax preference that now mostly benefits higher-paid workers, and only in certain workplaces, could be replaced by a credit that was portable, universal, and targeted at those on lower income.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Bill C-51 damages Canada’s economy. It must be scrapped
Frankly, it comes as an unwelcome surprise to us to see your government float proposals that, far from addressing the serious problems with Bill C-51, will in fact dramatically exacerbate those problems. We hope you will not proceed with any of these dangerous ideas… Privacy and data integrity safeguards represent security in its most clear and basic sense. Let’s start with this understanding and work from there.
Tags: globalization, ideology, rights, standard of living
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How to sell taxes to Canadians? Show them why they should care
Over the past decade, we have consistently found that about two-thirds of Canadians say taxes are mostly a positive thing, because they pay for important things such as health care, education and roads… If you need to introduce a fee or tax and your goal is public acceptance, then there needs to be a credible – or at least plausible – case that it will pay for something that taxpayers care about.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Liberals face revolt if health tax used to pay down deficit
The blue ribbon panel… suggested changing the tax treatment of employer-provided health insurance, in exchange for broadening tax-based support for the purchase of private health insurance by individuals… this is a policy Finance has been trying to foist upon successive governments for nearly a decade… this is a move, like the reform of child-care benefit, that would end tax breaks that disproportionately help the better off.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Out of the Shadows: Shining a light on Canada’s unequal distribution of federal tax expenditures
This study finds that Canada’s personal income tax expenditures disproportionately benefit the rich and cost the federal treasury nearly as much as it collects in personal income tax. The study examines the income distribution of benefit for the 64 personal income tax expenditures for which there is available data. Out of the 64 tax expenditures, 59 of them provide more benefit to the top 50% of income earners than the bottom half, with the largest share going to the richest 10%. The cost of those 59 expenditures totalled $100.5 billion in 2011 alone.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, tax
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Star series triggers political fundraising reform
MPPs voted unanimously Thursday to ban corporate and union donations to political parties, outlaw provincial parliamentarians and candidates from attending fundraisers, and lower contribution limits… Under the rules, such third-party interest groups would be limited to $100,000 in advertising during elections and $600,000 in the six preceding months. There would be a $1-million spending limit during that period for political parties.
Tags: featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Why this economist thinks government intervention is a good thing
TheGlobeandMail.com – ROB/Magazine Nov. 28, 2016. PAUL WALDIE Mariana Mazzucato is part of a new wave of economists—passionate, outspoken and determined to make the case that governments have an important role to play in the economy. The Italian-born Mazzucato, who is a professor of the economics of innovation at the University of Sussex in England, […]
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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It’s time for big cities like Toronto to get new taxes
In a new paper published by the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, we make a case for a bolder commitment — giving cities like Toronto access to more taxes, to bring them in line with many large U.S. and European cities… Although the property tax is a good tax for local governments and could be increased in many Canadian cities, additional taxes would give cities more flexibility to respond to local conditions.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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In scathing ruling, Federal Court says CSIS bulk data collection illegal
The Federal Court of Canada faulted Canada’s domestic spy agency Thursday for unlawfully amassing data, for misusing its surveillance warrants and for not being forthright with judges who authorize its intelligence programs. The court is also revealing that CSIS no longer needs warrants to collect Canadians’ tax records because of changes wrought by Bill C-51.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Appointing independent senators: Leave the skepticism behind
… the very purpose of a Senate composed of appointed members was to ensure that senators would consider the public policy issues of the day on their merits, not on the basis of preprogrammed positions dictated from above by party leadership. Canadians have seen this ideal compromised through patronage appointments, excessive partisanship and executive interference by previous Prime Ministers’ Offices. This is precisely why the government’s policy is to not exercise top-down partisan control over any member of the Senate
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