Reading Time: 3 minutes Controls were intended to ease consumer anger over rare but large price fluctuations. But government isn’t meant to be an anger management therapist
Tag: New Brunswick economy
Looking for affordable housing? Try Atlantic provinces
Reading Time: 3 minutes In an age of bloated house prices in many urban centres, Atlantic Canada’s situation is enviable
Atlantic Canada doesn’t know what real austerity feels like
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spending has risen steadily in the last generation, and anti-austerity activists clearly need to regain their equilibrium
Atlantic Canada’s oversized public sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes Money can be saved by paring the size of the public sector, finding efficiencies, privatizing some services and controlling wages
Beer-barrel economics: what goes down stimulates the economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes A cut in beer prices in New Brunswick led to an increase in beer sales to Nova Scotia and Quebec residents
New Brunswick HST increase outweighs spending cuts five to one
Reading Time: 4 minutes Raising taxes to pay for more spending isn’t working; new jobs aren’t being created and subsidies to add workers can’t be sustained
Finding inspiration in Britain’s economic resourcefulness
Reading Time: 3 minutes Policy-makers in New Brunswick should emulate Britain’s economic and budget policies; instead, they raise taxes and discourage growth
Tax hike won’t solve New Brunswick’s spending problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government raised taxes simply to be able to spend more
At least Atlantic Canada leads in something
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unfortunately, it’s sales taxes
Bad news keeps piling up for New Brunswick
Reading Time: 4 minutes From punitive tax strategies to moribund job creation to a weak education system, this provincial government seems intent on failure