Want to take a guess as to what percentage of family income was paid in combined federal and provincial income tax in 2008? I can’t give you the answer right now but I expect to shortly. One thing is for sure, if you read The National Post or the stuff from The Fraser Institute, [...]
Paul Krugman, writing in The New York Times, tells us that thanks to the obscene George W. Bush tax cuts, the richest 120,000 people in the U.S. will make $3 million each. If these tax cuts are continued, the cost to Washington over the next decade will be $680 billion!!! Almost all of this [...]
Next time someone writes a truly dumb column about Conrad Black (see the oped page in The Globe), remind them about Black’s profound declaration that “caring and compassion really means socialism.” What do you say we get him a job in the main food bank in Toronto if he’s ever allowed back into this [...]
Long ago the Harper Government made it clear it had no intention of passing any new significant legislation relating to global warming until Washington had done the same. Now that Congress has made it clear that it intends to do zero on the subject, where exactly does that leave the rabid anti environmentalists in [...]
It’s hard to accept the Harper government’s recent decision to go easy on Canadian tax cheats who have sent their money abroad to avoid paying income tax in Canada. Mind you, it’s a typical Harper government move. Know many middle-income or poor people who have secret bank accounts in Switzerland, the Cayman Islands or [...]
For years, those of us who opposed the FTA, and the even more ridiculous NAFTA, did our best in countless speeches and articles across the country to stress that our #1 concern (among many) was the huge loss of sovereignty that both poorly-negotiated agreements represented. The political parties and the media both did terrible [...]
Maclean’s new issue tells us that 42% of U.S. Tea Party supporters believe Obama is “doing many of the things that Hitler did” and 25% believe “he may be Antichrist.” Paul Krugman says that Republicans have become “embarrassing to watch.” As to why he hasn’t been even more critical: “It doesn’t feel right [...]
As you know, if you read the Report on Business or the awful National Post, Canada is a badly-overtaxed country. Baloney. The latest OECD comparative figures show that of the 30 countries, 21 pay higher taxes as a percentage of GDP than Canada. Not exactly what you’ve read in your far-right newspapers is it? [...]
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