Definitely nothing new to see here. The boutique tax cuts are still there, so are the small programs from the failed March 22nd budget. The government was even good enough to put on track changes to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is the same budget and…
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Perhaps the government’s new mantra for the budget and the throne speech is telling in its ordering. First priority is low tax, and then if jobs and growth also happen, well that’s a happy coincidence. It was interesting to hear the throne speech acknowledging that government spending like that in…
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In this (now) four-part post (Liberals, Conservatives, NDP) I wanted to take a look what the parties said in their platforms compared to what they actually want to spend money on…are they putting their money where their mouth is? For each of the parties I’ve created two wordles or word…
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In this three-part post (Liberals, Conservatives) I wanted to take a look what the parties said in their platforms compared to what they actually want to spend money on…are they putting their money where their mouth is? For each of the parties I’ve created two wordles or word charts. In…
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In this three-part post (Conservatives, NDP) I wanted to take a look at what the parties said in their platforms compared to what they want to spend money on…are they putting their money where their mouth is? For each of the parties I’ve created two wordles or word charts. In…
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In this three-part post (Liberals, NDP) I wanted to take a look at what the parties said in their platforms compared to what they are actually spending money on in those same platforms…are they putting their money where their mouth is? For each of the parties I’ve created two wordles…
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Today the CCPA released a study that I authored which examines and debunks one of the biggest contentions of this campaign, that corporate tax cuts create jobs. One of the key reasons cited by the Conservatives for continued corporate tax cuts is that they are needed to encourage job growth….
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On March 28th, Mr. Harper announced his party’s latest election plank: the “Family Tax Cut”, or income splitting for couples with children. The program is supposed to “…make the income tax system fairer…” while recognizing that “…family budgets are stretched…” But an examination of the distributional impacts of the “Family…
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One of the common complaints about elections is that they cost money (and therefore we should have fewer of them). The last two federal elections cost around $270 million (incidentally a little less than the additional amount it would have taken for the government to meet the NDP’s GIS demands…
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