Transactions are the result of human action. However, tax-tivists are dehumanizing financial actors and degrading them to financial institutions.
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Safe Spending Plan Could Cost Tories
It’s hard not to read between the lines of Finance Minister Lloyd Snelgrove’s comments about the provincial budget he delivers Thursday. Snelgrove describes the financial blueprint as “practical,” and “not too flashy.”
Big Business Wants Higher Sales Taxes
....the Business Council of Manitoba asks the city to pursue a one-point increase in Manitoba's seven per cent provincial sales tax to raise additional revenue for infrastructure. It also urged the province to hold a referendum to make that possible. The business...
Reaganomics: What We Learned: From December 1982 to June 1990, Reaganomics created over 21 million jobs. The right policies can do it again
For 16 years prior to Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the U.S. economy was in a tailspin—a result of bipartisan ignorance that resulted in tax increases, dollar devaluations, wage and price controls, minimum-wage hikes, misguided spending, pandering to unions, protectionist measures and other policy mistakes.
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Energy Inquiry Shows the Problem and the Way
If a public inquiry found that hundreds of millions of dollars was being funnelled by foreign entities to undermine Canadian industry, should we conclude there is nothing wrong? Remarkably, the public inquiry’s final report into anti-Alberta energy campaigns did the...
Why Millennials Prefer DIY Investing
One-third of Canadian millennials prefer going solo when it comes to managing and investing their money. Online financial education and tools are changing the rules of the game and threatening to affect financial advisors how emails affected mailmen. A recent poll...
Yes – We Will Feel Better if We are Taxed More. It’s True!
We all feel bad. We all feel sad. We all have those “need-to-be-taxed-more” blues. This is the remarkable conclusion being drawn from British economist Richard Layard’s recent book, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science. We are being told that although wealth has...
U.S. States Learn to Save by not Spending
Government should re-examine their taxation policies and get with the program of fiscal responsibility.
Overtaxed in Manitoba
The Doer government should take a good look at this report, and many others that draw similar conclusions, before drafting its 2006 budget.
Reality Based Tax Policy
New numbers from the U.S. show that tax cuts increase revenues.
A Year of Zero Tax Reductions
The Tax Load Index offers a simple measure of tax competitiveness across western Canada and adjacent jurisdictions, including Ontario and four American border states, North Dakota and Minnesota, Montana and Washington.
What Happened to 8 Percent?
Alberta must honour its commitment to reduce corporate income tax rates to 8.0 percent immediately with an eye towards even greater tax relief aimed at improving the incentives for work, savings, and investment.
Rich Pay Bigger Share
Canada’s top earners paid a greater share of the federal income tax pie in 2002 than 1990, Statistics Canada said
Corporate Income Tax Undercuts Prosperity: Task Force
Corporate income taxes are a drag on productivity and should be eliminated, an Ontario task force says
New Europe’s New Flat Taxes
Think back 20 years. Any suggestion that eastern and central Europe were desirable economic models came only from Western socialists, university professors and others with an eternal grudge against free markets. What a difference perestroika, McDonald's in Moscow, the...