The Trouble with Billionaires
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
Dec. 4, 2010
… the three decades following the Second World War were marked by strong economic growth, a highly regulated financial sector, a significant middle class with steadily rising incomes, heavy taxation of the rich (whose marginal tax rate reached 91 per cent under Eisenhower) and, consequently, record-low levels of inequality. By contrast, the neo-con era, kicked off by Ronald Reagan in 1980, gave us generous tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, stagnating middle-class incomes, sharp increases in inequality, a bloated and wildly speculative financial sector and, ultimately, financial collapse.
Tags: economy, globalization, standard of living, tax
Posted in Equality Debates | 1 Comment »
Fight call for more prisons
Monday, August 9th, 2010
August 8, 2010
Day, how about tackling important under-reported crime? Consider offences that are consistently under-reported in our society. Start with rape, domestic violence and child abuse. Spend our tax dollars on programs that can help women and children get out of abusive situations and extend to them the social services and the protection of the law they deserve… This particular justification for building more prisons so we can get tough on crime is Grade A horse manure that reasonable people should be able to smell from a mile away.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention
Posted in Child & Family Debates | No Comments »
Make domestic child health a priority
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
July 8, 2010
… while we go to heroic measures to help one sick individual, we are not generous in promoting the population’s health by guaranteeing all families with children access to decent housing, food, early learning or quality child care, and enough unstressed time together. The limited availability of these community supports is why nearly a third of the next generation of Canadians are vulnerable before they start school Put bluntly, we have a disease fetish in Canada. And the medical care system reinforces it.
Tags: child care, featured, Health, housing, poverty, standard of living
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