Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word : A Different Take on Taxes in Canada /
This is a book that will be of interest to students of public policy and public affairs, economics, and political science and to anyone interested in challenging the conventional wisdom that ever-lower taxes and smaller government are the answers to what ails us."--Pub. desc.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Conversation today. Economic consequences of taxing (and spending)
- Taxes and transfers in Canada : the federal dimension
- Taxes and public services
- Benefits from public services
- Canadian public opinion on taxes.
- pt. 2. How we got here. Taxation and the neo-liberal counter-revolution : the Canadian case
- Brief potted history of Ottawa's tax cut mania
- Tax cuts and other cheap parlour tricks.
- pt. 3. Different take on taxes. Toward a fair Canadian tax system
- Carbon taxes : can a good policy become good politics?
- How small changes can make a big difference : the case of financial transaction taxes
- We need to simplify and re-focus the tax system.