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1. Wealth tax wouldn’t work the way Ottawa wants

   According to the PBO, governments could raise up to $61 billion with a wealth tax on Canadians worth more than $10 million. ...

2. Myth—the CPP is a low-cost pension plan

   As the debate about the Canada Pension Plan persists, with finance minsters meeting next week in Vancouver to discuss possible CPP expansion, a misleading argument made in favour of expansion is that the CPP is a low-cost public pension ...

3. Tax people, not corporations: Public's misplaced sense of fairness costs the economy dearly

   Appeared in the Financial Post Until recently, there was a consensus in favour of competitive business taxes. But whenever governments are strapped for cash- which is most of the time for most of them, given their voracious appetite for spending- eyes ...

4. Corporate Income Taxes- Who Pays?

   Whenever governments are strapped for cash, eyes quickly turn to corporate income taxes as an expedient and presumed painless way to help balance their books. The erroneous thinking behind raising corporate income taxes, however, is that corporations and ...