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Ontario needs budget that’s fair for all
A recent report from the Ontario Association of Food Banks found poverty costs Ontario up to $38 billion every year. It would cost much less than that to develop a strategic plan to build a fairer, healthier and more equitable Ontario that ensures no one is homeless, relying on food banks, lacking extended health benefits or faced with chronic unemployment.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, tax
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National pharmacare program could save $7.3 billion: study
… you can do this without having to increase taxes by a single penny and that changes the whole conversation… The study did not take into account additional savings to the health system that would be achieved when those who cannot afford to fill prescriptions start taking medications. Nor did it take into account savings that would be derived through more appropriate prescribing that a national system would be expected to promote.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Why income splitting will finally allow your wife to do “chores at home”
… the median income of families with one male breadwinner and a non-working spouse is $40,000. And stay-at-home dad families have a median income of $33,000. Robson estimates the median single-income Canadian family would see a smooth $38 in average total tax savings from income splitting… Could I incorporate my family as a small business and pay my wife a salary to dodge taxes?… Yes!… many wealthy Canadian families are already taking advantage of this very loophole… [but] this “tolerance” from the CRA is discriminatory against the salaried middle-class or waged lower-income earners.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Who’s the customer in higher education? We all are
The internal debate between the unions and the university administrators is over how to divide the current pot… the TAs and contract profs versus managers, fancy facilities etc. But the public’s stake is rather different… as long as universities need those revenues, they’ll respond with short-term accommodations… universities will never be good job placement agencies. Those tasks belong to business and governments.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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Provinces push pharmacare out of reach
The appeal of eliminating universal drug coverage is obvious. It reduces the burden on the public purse. It makes medicare more sustainable. It targets benefits to those who really need them. What’s not to like? … It is detrimental to the health of seniors… It penalizes Canadians over 65 with chronic conditions or serious disabilities… And it is financially inefficient… The long-term costs will add up in ways Canadians haven’t begun to contemplate.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, ideology, pharmaceutical, standard of living, tax
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Seniors’ discounts a worsening drain on public purse, report warns
Discounts on public services for senior citizens who can afford to pay more are bad for us, says a new report… Thanks to aggressive pension and guaranteed-income programs, the poverty rate among seniors has fallen from 36 per cent in the 1970s to about 12 per cent — lower than the rate among younger people. “The generally lower incidence of poverty among the elderly provides little or no justification for continuing subsidies of whatever kind on the basis of age”…
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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No point pretending the Reform Act can revive Canada’s Pretend Parliament
A Parliament that cannot offer meaningful scrutiny, even for a bill with such potential to curtail civil liberties; that has proven itself repeatedly unable to hold the executive to account; that long ago lost control of the public purse: this is not a Parliament in any real sense. It is a Pretend Parliament, and it is probably best that we did not pretend it could be revived.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, tax
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How TFSAs fit Harper’s vision of small government
RRSPs leave a legacy of tax revenue to future governments. Increasing TFSA contribution limits does just the opposite – it creates an investment vehicle that is ripe for abuse, whether by generating super-normal returns, or by sheltering income in a TFSA while claiming government benefits. At the same time, it deprives future governments of the opportunity to tax investment income.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, tax
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