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  1. Government Spending & Taxes Commentary Archive
  2. Government Spending & Taxes Commentary Archive

Government Spending & Taxes Commentary Archive

Federal government wants to make CBC News commercial free
By Lydia Miljan | February 8, 2022
‘Patriotic Millionaires’ ignore basic tax facts
By Jake Fuss, Tegan Hill | February 2, 2022
Federal government has increased income taxes on middle class
By Jake Fuss, Milagros Palacios, Nathaniel Li | January 20, 2022
Ottawa continues to mislead about government indebtedness
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, Jake Fuss | January 14, 2022
Ottawa can promote national unity with two key reforms
By Ben Eisen | January 5, 2022
Can provinces address their deficits while Ottawa withdraws emergency transfers?
By Steve Lafleur, Ben Eisen | January 2, 2022
Year-end facts about the federal government’s performance in 2021
By Niels Veldhuis | December 31, 2021
Will Ontario avoid another post-recession era of debt growth?
By Ben Eisen, Steve Lafleur | December 23, 2021
Leaving 2021—was debt binge a blip or a sea change?
By Ben Eisen | December 22, 2021
Ottawa’s spending spree comes with huge costs
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, Jake Fuss | December 17, 2021
Equalization ‘overpayments’ will keep growing
By Ben Eisen | December 16, 2021
Trudeau government ignores dreary economic numbers
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, Niels Veldhuis | December 9, 2021
Chamber of Commerce embraces climate alarmism and attacks businesses in Ontario
By Matthew Lau | December 2, 2021
Provinces face precarious fiscal positions—even post-pandemic
By Jake Fuss | December 2, 2021
Modest fiscal rules could have saved billions in federal spending
By Livio Di Matteo | November 19, 2021
Ottawa should rethink costly, poorly targeted Canada Child Benefit
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, Steven Globerman | November 4, 2021
Alberta’s ‘yes’ vote on equalization only first step to fix larger broken system
By Tegan Hill, Niels Veldhuis | November 3, 2021
Canada must improve tax competitiveness during COVID recovery
By Jake Fuss, Ben Eisen | November 3, 2021
Wealth tax would make Canada’s bad situation even worse
By Jason Clemens, Jake Fuss | October 7, 2021
Canadians should be wary about ‘fair share’ tax rhetoric
By Jake Fuss | October 6, 2021
Alberta and Saskatchewan need new rules to save revenue
By Tegan Hill, Jason Clemens | September 29, 2021
The real election losers—balance sheet, health care, federalism
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, Niels Veldhuis | September 28, 2021
Despite smaller projected budget deficit, Albertans can’t afford to discount province’s fiscal challenges
By Tegan Hill | September 22, 2021
Next prime minister should cut spending to help the poor
By Matthew Lau | September 17, 2021
Next prime minister should eschew interventionist ‘industrial policy’
By Matthew Lau | September 15, 2021