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One of my main undertakings on this blog has been to debunk Jack Mintz’s relentless advocacy of tax cuts for large corporations. However, I also give him credit when he proposes good policy, such as raising potash royalties and the small-business corporate tax rate. This past week, he was out with a paper on the [...]
Posted by Erin Weir under corporate income tax, Jack Mintz, NDP.
June 4th, 2011
Comments: 4
Andrew Scheer has been elected House of Commons Speaker. I met him in 2004, when we were federal candidates in adjacent Regina ridings. I was the no-shot NDP candidate against then-Finance Minister Ralph Goodale and he was the long-shot Conservative candidate against veteran NDP MP Lorne Nystrom. At the end of that summer, we were [...]
Posted by Erin Weir under democracy, media, Quebec, Saskatchewan.
June 4th, 2011
Comments: 4
I was watching CNBC and happened to see this panel about how the number of Americans killed by natural disasters has declined over time. It was also noted that, in early 2010, fewer people died in Chile’s earthquake than in Haiti’s earthquake. The discussion quite reasonably outlined how improvements in emergency preparedness, building codes, and [...]
Posted by Erin Weir under capitalism, environment, media, US.
June 2nd, 2011
Comments: 11