Canadians have been told that the GST (a value-added tax) is a far better tax than most other levies and that Canada has one of the best GSTS in the world, according to OECD analysis. The GST is not all it’s hyped up to be, due to its massive tax preferences and special provisions. In fact, Canada’s consumption tax is below average in performance.
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The Death Of Global Warming Skepticism, Or The Birth Of Straw Men?
The mainstream media has been spiking the football in the proverbial end zone ever since a paper released last Friday claimed two-thirds of global temperature stations show some warming occurred during the past century. Rather than delivering a death blow to skepticism, the media has merely invented and shredded an insignificant straw man.
Milking Our Gullibility: Many Canadians pay twice what Americans pay
Why we pay more for dairy products couldn’t be simpler: Our dairy cartel artificially restricts supply. Now, according to economic theory, industries with literally thousands of competitors, as there are in dairy, aren’t able to form cartels. It’s too easy for members to cheat by cutting prices on the sly. Even the world’s most famous cartel, OPEC, with only a dozen members, often has trouble keeping oil prices high.
Carbon Credits Like Medieval Indulgences: Money should be spent on raising living standards, not the Kyoto Protocol
As a bishop who regularly preaches to congregations of every age and at widely different levels of prosperity and education, I have some grasp of the challenges in presenting a point of view to the general public. This helps me to understand the propaganda achievements of the climate extremists, at least until their attempted elimination of the Medieval Warming and then Climategate.
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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …
Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant – likes to...
Medical Martial Law – Never Again
The economic upheaval now roiling over the world’s financial markets, rapidly lowering living standards, and even threatening to freeze Europeans this winter, is all directly related to the radical decision most western leaders took in March of 2020., when a new...
Millions Spent on Aboriginal Lobby, Not People: Communities must re-evaluate spending priorities
Five national Aboriginal organizations have received about $239 million in taxpayer money.
The Bad Economics Behind Stimulus Spending
“Economist John Taylor (Stanford University) says government intervention caused the market meltdown of 2008 and that “short-run government spending” has only made matters worse. He dismisses the theory that stimulus spending can jump-start an economy as an “old-fashioned” Keynesian illusion.”
Throw Cold Water on Bulk-Water Export Opposition
“A recent special report on water in The Economist offered a provocative comment: “The trouble with water is that it’s all politics, no economics.” How else to explain why a pro-free-trade government in one of the world’s most water-endowed countries would seek to ban bulk water exports?”
Governments Can’t Hide from Profit: When Governments don’t record profits, they should acknowledge the foregone profits of taxpayers’ capital
Profit is not the enemy in healthcare. Its banishment from government books does not improve societal welfare once the loss of potential profit by private citizens is accounted for.
It’s all Greek to Quebec
“Equalization in Canada was established to ensure that “have-not” regions could enjoy the same programs as “have” regions and most Canadians wouldn’t quibble with that. But that has not happened. In fact, the reverse has occurred. The have provinces have fewer services than the have-nots.”
The Western World Keeps Spending Its Way To Disaster
” ‘The BIS paper notes that the public debt of 30 OECD countries will (on average) exceed 100 per cent of GDP within the next year, “something that has never happened before in peacetime.” ‘
Ted Morton: Counterpoint — Putting Equalization on the Table
“Far from “demonizing” the concept of equalization, Alberta is simply hoping to initiate a constructive dialogue aimed at improving the program in a way that benefits provinces across Canada, not just Alberta.”
Attention Whole Foods Shoppers: Stop obsessing about arugula. Your ‘sustainable’ mantra — organic, local, and slow — is no recipe for saving the world’s hungry millions.
“Though it’s certainly a good thing to be thinking about global welfare while chopping our certified organic onions, the hope that we can help others by changing our shopping and eating habits is being wildly oversold to Western consumers.”
Competitive Care: When Italy’s Lombardy region pitted private hospitals against public ones, the quality of care rose dramatically
“For the past 10 years, public and private hospitals in Lombardy have competed directly for patients, and in doing so have created what is considered by many to be one of Europe’s most efficient health-care systems.”