Monday, August 25, 2014
Here's something else that would advance our cause in Nova Scotia if we could only talk about it without the pious platitudes: taxation.
As it turns out the provincial government has its Tax and Regulatory Review on the case. This could be a very useful exercise if it actually goes to the root of the matter. But will it? Or is it meant to chow down on the prevailing dogma: that the only way forward is to reduce taxes, especially business taxes, and to avoid at all cost the heresy of topping up taxes for the highest earners.
Hopefully the review committee, led by public policy expert and former Ontario cabinet minister Laurel Broten, will take account of the problems with this creed.
Here's something else that would advance our cause in Nova Scotia if we could only talk about it without the pious platitudes: taxation.