Reading Time: 3 minutes Some corporations are doing better than ever while Canadians struggle with skyrocketing cost of living. Let’s tax them
Tag: Corporate welfare
The Flames arena’s demise good for Calgary taxpayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unfortunately, city council is not willing to give up on a deal just yet
$2 billion(!) payment to dairy farmers all about politics
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Trudeau government is raiding our Covid-19 starved pockets to send $36 from each of us to rich dairy farmers
Bombardier the poster child of pork-barrel cronyism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Instead of picking winners and losers, federal and provincial governments should step back and let markets work
Alberta government flip-flops on corporate welfare
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time for the UCP to drop its newfound interest in picking winners and losers
Corporate welfare no way to help the economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes A comment by Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews sounds like he is getting the same corporate welfare itch that plagued the New Democrats
France teaches Alphabet the ABCs of competition fairness
Reading Time: 4 minutes Digital technology has allowed news aggregators like Google to steal from media outlets for too long
Taxpayers are often the losers in the incentive game
Reading Time: 4 minutes When one government offers incentives and another one doesn’t, then the competition to attract new businesses is no longer a level playing field
Throwing government money at all the wrong things
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Ontario government continually makes corporate welfare payments that fly in the face of social policy
Corporate welfare doesn’t create jobs
Reading Time: 3 minutes Corporate welfare causes an economic loss, exacerbated by the fact that it encourages businesses to devote resources seeking government funds