Reading Time: 4 minutes The Trudeau government’s second budget is essentially an extension of its first. Deficits continue, debt is growing, spending is up and taxes are rising
Tag: Federal budget
Federal budget is short on innovation or social value
Reading Time: 3 minutes It assumes government is the agent of change and social stability for the middle class – the same philosophy that’s wrongly guided most spending for decades
Federal budget 2017 fails the middle class
Reading Time: 3 minutes While the budget is entitled “Building a Stronger Middle Class”, the government’s own projections prove the opposite is actually occurring
Federal budget punts major policy decisions to another day
Reading Time: 4 minutes Instead of a wait-and-see budget, the government could have been proactive and taken steps to carve out a clear economic agenda
Hiking capital gains taxes will soak middle class too
Reading Time: 3 minutes A rate hike will lighten the wallets of many middle-income Canadians who realize a large one-time capital gain
Feds paint misleading picture of Canada’s middle class
Reading Time: 3 minutes Based on a host of indicators, Canada’s middle class is actually doing much better relative to past decades
Upcoming federal budget opportunity for tax reform
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa can simplify the tax system and promote economic growth at the same time
A brief history of federal budgets from 1867-2017
Reading Time: 3 minutes Politicians who do not learn from history doom the rest of us to repeat it
Welcome to the new normal – deficits without end
Reading Time: 3 minutes Some governments are discarding the idea of reining in debt and deficits as they abandon plans of returning to a balanced budget on a fixed timeline
Canada heads down the path to debilitating debt again
Reading Time: 3 minutes Deficit spending by the Trudeau government will simply slow our recovery and handicap future generations