New numbers from the U.S. show that tax cuts increase revenues.
Year: 2005
The problem with ghetto grocers
Inner-city poverty – It’s costly being poor
Should We Ban Chemotherapy, Too?
Refusing to use insecticides to fight Africa’s malaria problem sentences needless millions to death.
They need to learn to appreciate life
More than 60 kids under 18 are addicted to sniffing gasoline, accounting for more than half the school-age kids who live on the reserve
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Supply Chain Strains Could Cause Shortages and Hoarding
Supply chain problems, both international and domestic, could create shortages and hoarding, and make recent inflationary pressures even worse. Although problems with our ports and railways may beg policy solutions, the short-term response of everyday Canadians should...
New Book: Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis
CALGARY, AB, December 17, 2021 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new book, Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis written by Susan Martinuk. Susan is an accomplished, nationally recognized researcher and writer who has...
Want that Supersized? Manitoba’s Public Sector
In 2003/04, combined local, provincial and federal government spending as a percent of the economy was 47.4% in Manitoba , compared to 38% nationally. Still the largest in western Canada, that means that Manitoba’s total government spending as a percent of the economy is 24.6% higher than the Canadian average.
Controlling Government Monopolies
It’s high time government was hauled in front of a judge to justify its actions.
End Ideological War in Healthcare
IT’S time to stop the ideological war over private health care, says a University of Winnipeg economist who has studied the ways other industrialized countries care for their citizens.
Depoliticized pensions
Citizens have more secure retirements when they have more say in their pension investments and government stays out of the way.
Niels Veldhuis, Senior Research Economist, The Fraser Institute
To become economically competititve, Manitoba needs to reduce the size of its public sector and reform its taxation and labour policies.
Higher Electricity Pricing Needed
Provincial and territorial governments need to encourage conservation by raising prices to eliminate the current gaps that persist between what it costs to produce electricity and what Canadians are charged for it
The Real Scoop on those ‘Obscene’ Insurance Profits
There is some irony in the Alberta government — with its own projected $4.1-billion surplus this fiscal year — reviewing regulated policy rates because of $4.2-billion insurance company profits
The Evolution of a Zombie Economy
Higher budgets that try to supercharge the growth of low quality public services merely compound the problem.
Flat Is Beautiful
If old Europe cannot beat the flat-taxers of new Europe, it may have to join them.