A few weeks ago I made reference to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. It has come up with a national Municipality Transparency Index. Saint John was rated last on a list of 133 cities. Armed with awareness I decided to spend a bit of time digging through the City of Saint John’s website in an effort to become more enlightened.
Taxation
The Swedish Model: It’s the free-market reforms, stupid..
In a Europe plagued by debt crises, one country has no budget deficit at all and is currently returning to surplus. This same country is consistently among Europe’s fastest growing economies, with GDP growth set to hit 4% this year. That country is Sweden.
The Trouble with Taxing Top Earners: Postwar economic growth does not demonstrate high top rates are harmless
Drastically higher taxes on the rich are not the right response to growing income inequality in Canada.
Political Diversity: Money Talks and its Language is Incumbency (Part 5 of 8): Current model limits political competition
Manitoba’s supplicant society allows the government to maintain its incumbency through the use of public monies to buy promotional advertising, as well as secure union and corporate support.
Featured News
Did 2021’s Hot Summer Spark New Green Extremism?
There’s no doubt that summer 2021 was a scorcher. The United Kingdom’s Met Office revealed how temperatures exceeded 30°C in September for only the seventh time in history. In Vancouver, Canada, 2021 was the second hottest summer ever recorded, with daily average...
How ESG Standards Favor Toxic Petrostates
Coercion and vandalism have become commonplace tactics to force insurers off mining and oil development projects throughout the world. Ironically, that clears the way for companies with deep pockets and petrostates whose goal is geopolitical supremacy, not...
Parties Neglect Productivity-boosting Policies
The economic platforms of neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives will do anything to stop the decline in Canada’s standard of living against the United States over the next few years, an economist said yesterday.
Stephen Harper, Leader of the Conservative Party
Frontier interviews Stephen Harper, Leader of the Conservative Party in Winnipeg, May 17th, 2004
Speech by Stephen Harper on Tax Policy
Opposition Leader Stephen Harper’s speech to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy on tax policy, May 17th, 2004
Flat Tax Comeback
Flat tax systems being adopted by many countries..
A Home Run for Winnipeg?
Glenn Murray’s “New Deal for Cities” would shift municipal taxes in important and positive ways.
Alberta Reductions Outpace Neighbours Again (FC012)
The 2003 Tax Load Index offers a simple measure of tax competitiveness across western Canada and adjacent jurisdictions, including Ontario and two American states, North Dakota and Minnesota.
Russia’s Flat Tax Works
After Russia moved to a simple 13% flat income tax revenues increased.
Bush Moves Towards Consumption Taxation
The high degree of income mobility in American society is a key reason why many of the poor and middle class oppose high taxes on the rich.
Manitoba’s Future Hampered By Low Business Investment (FC011)
Read in PDF format here.