by Amela Karabegovic and Charles Lammam The gap is growing! The gap is growing! The rich are getting richer. And the poor, well, they just remain poor. At least that’s what one would gather from the hysteria reported in the media on the latest Conference Board of Canada report on income inequality. With headlines screaming “Canada [...]
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What about that Income Gap?
Posted on 09 November 2011.
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This is the moment fiscal conservatives have been waiting for
Posted on 02 September 2011.
Sometimes what looks like an imperceptible change can be important if it signals a turning point and a new direction. Fiscal conservatives have been looking for a new direction from the federal government ever since Harper was elected prime minister in 2006. They cringe that program spending for the year ended 2010 was up 17.8 per [...]
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An unimportant president
Posted on 02 September 2011.
By Theo Caldwell Rick Perry wants to be unimportant. The Texas governor has famously promised that, if he is elected president of the United States, he will “work hard every day to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as [he] can.” In Austin recently, he gave a few of us some details as to how that [...]
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Let’s flatten our taxes
Posted on 07 March 2011.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says when (if?) he balances the budget, he will move next to “flatten” taxes. As he recently put it, “I think we should be moving toward a flatter personal income tax system because it encourages economic activity … it encourages entrepreneurial activity in Canada”. More specifically, Flaherty is talking about reducing [...]
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