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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Les Whittington: Tax cuts drive Harper’s right-wing agenda (in the Toronto Star)

Les Whittington in the Toronto Star on Harper's right-wing agenda.

"In the spring of 1987, at a conference of western Canadian activists in Vancouver, Stephen Harper ... called for the implementation of a “new economics” of smaller, leaner government.

"More than two decades later, Harper is still pursuing the goal of transforming Canada into a more right-wing nation along the lines envisioned by the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. ...

"The overall impact of the Conservative tax reductions in Canada has been to intensify the inequalities in wealth across society....

"In a study entitled The Rise of Canada’s Richest 1%, economist Armine Yalnizyan concluded, 'Reductions in personal income taxes, tax exemptions for savings and cuts to consumption taxes disproportionately helped the most affluent and actually made life harder for most Canadians, particularly those with the lowest incomes.'"

Full article: Tax cuts drive Harper’s right-wing agenda.

This is not a recipe for a stable country.

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