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Slumping oil price undercuts Stephen Harper
The central pillar of Harper’s economic strategy — being an aggressive fossil fuel exporter — has crumbled in a world awash with petroleum… Even if there were an appetite for Alberta’s viscous oil, it would be landlocked… The provincial premiers, tired of waiting for leadership from Ottawa, have hatched their own plan to build a low-carbon economy by putting a price on pollution, developing renewable energy and capping greenhouse gases.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, tax
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Why Stephen Harper should love carbon taxes
If Ottawa simply photocopied the BC model, it would mean higher taxes on gasoline and other fuels, but lower taxes elsewhere. Ottawa could cut payroll taxes, such as Employment Insurance premiums, which are widely seen as a tax on jobs and a disincentive for companies to hire. It could cut income taxes, too… with a carbon tax, a government could do the seemingly impossible. It could cut income taxes and other taxes, without cutting spending.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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How much is Canada losing to overseas tax evasion?
An analysis of the difference between what is owed in taxes and what is actually collected would provide a means of measuring the CRA’s performance and the scale of overseas tax evasion. The CRA, however, has blocked any attempt by the PBO to acquire the necessary information… Not only does the government not want to estimate the tax gap, it doesn’t want anyone else to try to do it, either.
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Finance Department now a fact-free zone
Since Stephen Harper began governing Canada almost nine years ago, one of his goals has been to turn the federal government into a fact-free zone. The scrapping of the long-form census. The muzzling of government scientists. The systematic elimination of independent voices like the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy. Harper simply cannot abide evidence-based advice that gets in the way of his partisan policies.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Fair taxation needed to curb growth of inequality
[Milligan] does not take into account the societal cost of pollution, the revenue imbalance between governments, or the ever-expanding agglomeration of fees, user charges and levies that has sprung up outside the tax system… But… He drew a direct link between inequality and Canada’s outdated, loophole-riddled tax system. He put some good ideas on the table. And he offered the next prime minister the first draft of a road map to a fairer future.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, tax
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Catholic school boards can’t be wished away just yet
Amalgamation, consolidation or elimination is an idea whose time hasn’t come — yet… Clearly, if one were redesigning an education system from scratch, there’s no question that separate school boards make no sense as public policy. But that’s not the question. Today’s challenge is how to dismantle, delicately, what we have inherited — how to liberate the laity from Catholic constraints, and how to spare the rest of the expense.
Tags: budget, ideology, rights, tax, youth
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Returning to the fairness of the ‘a buck is a buck’ principle of taxation
… individuals and corporations adjust their behaviour in response to rising tax rates, whether in an economic sense (less savings, investment and work effort) or simply by taking advantage of the various avenues available to them to reduce their tax exposure, including moving to lower-tax jurisdictions… If we really want to soak the rich better to focus on closing tax preferences, which research again shows mostly benefit those with higher incomes: the small-business tax deduction, for example, or the lifetime capital gains exemption.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, tax
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New Blueprint for Canada’s Tax System Proposed
… if the benefits of economic growth and recent tax reforms, like reductions to corporate taxes, continues to be concentrated among those with the highest incomes, support will erode for such growth-enhancing tax reforms, which also enhance Canada’s international tax competitiveness. The solution is to reform income taxes. Milligan calls for a dual-income tax that continues to tax wages progressively but taxes investments at a flat rate in order to achieve fairness and competitiveness.
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U.S. income gap a danger to Canada: TD
… the gap between high and low incomes in Canada was relatively stable through the 1970s and 1980s. That changed in the 1990s when governments began cutting transfer payments and support for low-income earners as they tried to cut deficits and balance the books. But when governments found themselves back in surpluses, the policies they put in place didn’t reverse the growing gap between rich and poor
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Robert Reich and the fight against inequality
… the three-decade span between the late 1940s and the late 1970s — was characterized by high rates of taxation on the wealthy; heavy government investment in the people; and the peak level of unionization in America’s private-sector workforce.
In… Inequality for All , Reich offers a personal narrative of the causes and ills of income inequality. The film is a blueprint of the practical steps by which North America can correct the economically and socially debilitating tilt toward the wealthy.
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