My first radio piece for the Frontier Centre focuses on the announcement by the Wall government that the Saskatchewan Film Tax Credit will be removed: The uproar over the Wall government’s move to end Saskatchewan’s film tax credit cries out for a wider debate over...
Taxation
Britain Raises Taxes on the 1%, the 1% Pay Less
With the Ontario NDP demanding a tax increase on upper income earners as a condition to prop up the McGuinty government, and the Alberta Liberals and NDP running on creating new tax brackets for the wealthy, it's worth taking a look at the news out of Britain. Despite...
The Radical Plan Hidden in Flaherty’s Sedate Budget
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty achieved a number of objectives in his first bullet-proof budget, which was largely free of partisan contention and ideological conflict. It espoused cautious fiscal management. It affirmed incremental change – or, often enough, no change at all.
Horwath’s High-Income Tax Proposal doesn’t add up
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath proposes an income tax increase for those who make more than $500,000 a year. These people, she says, aren’t paying their fair share. That’s a bit of a stretch.
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What Must Be Done to Curb Canada’s Household Debt
Canada is struggling economically. From inflation and deficits to investment and employment, everything that should be up is down, and everything that should be down is up. One striking symptom of economic rot is household debt, which is rising faster than incomes....
Crown Utilities’ Unfair Advantages Reduce Competition, Innovation
Largely unique among state-owned enterprises, ‘SEOs’, worldwide, Canadian Crown corporations have two key advantages over current and future private sector competitors: non-taxable status and access to low-cost public sector borrowing rates. Other implicit edges...
Pay Your Own Way
“Even if Ottawa paid for all the upgrades to rolling stock, rail lines and terminals that Via desires, even if federal taxpayers assumed all of Via’s debts, the public rail carrier would still lose money.”
Want A Foreign Aid Miracle? Free Up The Economy
Throughout Africa today, income tax rates are often preposterous – and high goods-and-services taxes ubiquitous. Governments practise the worst kind of protectionism. Bureaucracies routinely smother enterprise. Jobs are commonly exchanged for bribes. International aid agencies, wallets still open, remain largely silent – or, worse, persist with empty denunciations of the wicked West. Africa doesn’t really need much foreign help. It does need an Erhard.
In Defence of Great Public Architecture
Most of what governments spend tax dollars on-—and too much–has to do with service delivery—-and not decent, beautiful public spaces. Governments should focus on reining in the former and investing in the latter.
Report Calls for ‘User-Pay’ System
“A local think-tank thinks the user-pay concept should apply to rural roads damaged by mining, forestry, oil and gas companies and other heavy users.”
“User-Pays” Concept Urged for Rural Prairie Roads
“Using the ‘exceptional user pays’ principle, particularly heavy road users can be assessed for the disproportionate road damage their activities create and be charged accordingly.”
Media Release – Better Accounting Could Solve Funding Headaches for Rural Roads
In other parts of the world, rural government jurisdictions faced similar challenges and responded by charging users in proportion to the exceptional damage they cause. This is the “exceptional user-pays” principle.
Why A Little Tax Competition Is A Good Thing
On Canada Day, New Brunswick took the next step in its plan for lower taxes. New Brunswick’s bold move to redesign its system and encourage growth through prosperity has already paid its first dividends – for the people of Maine, no less.
Astounding Amounts Of Money
At recession’s end, the U. S. will be forced to raise taxes heavily just to pay the interest on Obama’s debts; Canada will be positioned to maintain and even reduce taxes. Obama’s indebtedness will exert unending downward pressure on the U. S. dollar, while higher energy prices and superior economic management cause the Canadian loonie to rise.
Canada’s Obama Love Affair Undercuts our National Interest
The quasi-mystical worship of Barack Obama is not in Canada’s national interest. From border issues to trade, the Democratic president and his allies in Congress are targeting foreign countries and that includes Canada.