Reading Time: 3 minutes Bringing government employee wages and benefits in line with private-sector norms is key to balancing B.C.’s budget
Author: Charles Lammam
Charles Lammam was director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute.
Deficit spending is no free lunch; it’s a bill to future taxpayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government should stop kicking the can down the road and reduce federal spending now to avoid future tax increases
CPP’s perpetual head start
Reading Time: 3 minutes Private pensions face regulatory burdens that the Canada Pension Plan does not
Raising B.C.’s minimum wage won’t help working poor
Reading Time: 3 minutes A work-based subsidy increases the income of the working poor without making it harder for employers to hire less-skilled workers
Canada must escape the corporate welfare trap
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to scrap corporate welfare in order to restore Canada’s business tax advantage over the U.S.
B.C. closing doors to investment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government policies mean the province is gaining an international reputation as a place where major projects can’t get done
Unconditional basic income is a bad idea
Reading Time: 4 minutes Such a program would weaken the incentives to work for lower-income Canadians and people not strongly tied to the labour force
Ontario Liberals, PCs both wrong on minimum wage policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The better plan would be a work-based subsidy that provides a cash transfer to working families with incomes below a certain level
Surprise! There was no tax cut for middle-class Canadians families
Reading Time: 4 minutes When you add up the eliminated credits, you get a very different perspective on the total income tax changes
Federal infrastructure spending a mess of delays, misguided priorities
Reading Time: 3 minutes A mere 10.6% of the nearly $100 billion in new infrastructure spending is for trade and transportation