Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Robert Reich discusses the right’s utter lack of – and aversion to – empathy as either a personal or political value. Bob Norman reports on a...
View ArticleNorthern Reflections: What’s New?
http://lawofwork.ca/ As the details of Stephen Harper’s income splitting plan are made public, it becomes clear how grotesque his...
View ArticleNorthern Reflections: They Claim He’s a Smart Man
http://dyn.com/ The Conservative “Family Tax Cut” is straight out of the fifties. Linda McQuaig considers three families, each earning a...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Shannon Gormley points out that human rights are meaningless in the face of a government which claims the entitlement to strip people of their humanity – which...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Paul Krugman discusses the U.S.’ multi-decade pattern of income stagnation. David MacDonald and Kayle Hatt study the price we’ve paid to suit the Cons’...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Jonas Fossli Gherso discusses the unfortunate (and unnecessary) acceptance of burgeoning inequality even by the people who suffer most from its presence. And Ryan...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. - The Economist discusses how a tiny elite group is taking a startling share of the U.S.’ total wealth: The ratio of household wealth to national income has...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Tom Sullivan’s advice for Democrats south of the border that it’s essential to reach out to dispossessed voters of all types of backgrounds with a...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Tory income-splitting tax policy: It’s about creating and...
Whew! This income splitting is a killer. Actual perfect families as seen by the Harper Government may not appear exactly like Canadian reality. Below: Queen’s University tax law professor Kathleen...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Ed Broadbent laments Canada’s failure to meet its commitment to end child poverty – and notes that the Harper Cons in particular are headed in exactly the...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood discusses the close connection between the energy sector and inequality in Canada – with the obvious implication that...
View ArticleScott's DiaTribes: Pre-emptive pre-writ Liberal strike – radio style.
This got released yesterday on the radio. A nice little ad on the radio explaining why the Liberal Party is opposed to income splitting. Personally, I’m pleased to see we’re starting to fight fire with...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. - Robert Ferdman reports on a Pew Research poll showing that wealthier Americans are downright resentful toward the poor – and think the people with the most...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Scott Sinclair studies the effect of NAFTA on government policies, and finds that it’s been used primarily (and all too frequently) to attack Canadian policy...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. - Tasini at Daily Kos discusses the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy’s finding that every single U.S. state has a regressive tax structure in the taxes...
View ArticleEh Types: Splitting Our Differences
Imagine your kid’s school has 100 kids. It’s a good school, and all the parents pay for a lunch program so everyone gets a sandwich. Economically, it’s in a fairly diverse neighborhood so the school...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Kendra Coulter discusses the connection between human treatment of animals and humans: Close to home and around the world, working class and poor people are really...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Harvey Kaye discusses how the rich’s class warfare against everybody else has warped the U.S. politically and economically. And PressProgress observes that the...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Yeah, But in Harper’s Eyes, They’re the Canadians That...
Another zinger from the parliamentary budget officer. The PBO is confirming what other critics have been saying for a long time – Harper’s income splitting initiative will benefit just one in six...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Michael Babad writes that we should be glad to see jobs being created in the public sector since the private sector is doing nothing to offer opportunities...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: The definition of privilege
Connor Kilpatrick is right to observe that while we should be willing to take note of privilege in many forms, we should be especially concerned with organizing to counter the grossly outsized...
View ArticleProgressive Proselytizing: Justin Trudeau’s tax plan is good policy and great...
Going as far back as Justin Trudeau’s leadership election, he has consistently kept his major campaign planks close to the vest. Little tidbits, like the policy on marijuana, come out in carefully...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Lars Osberg discusses the positive effects of raising taxes on Canada’s wealthiest few. And Avram Denburg argues for a speedy end to income splitting due to both its...
View ArticleProgressive Proselytizing: Justin Trudeau’s tax plan is good policy and great...
Going as far back as Justin Trudeau's leadership election, he has consistently kept his major campaign planks close to the vest. Little tidbits, like the policy on marijuana, come out in carefully...
View ArticleProgressive Proselytizing: Justin Trudeau’s tax plan is good policy and great...
Going as far back as Justin Trudeau’s leadership election, he has consistently kept his major campaign planks close to the vest. Little tidbits, like the policy on marijuana, come out in carefully...
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