On January 29, the Vancouver Sun ran an opinion piece by Iglika Ivanova and myself entitled “The Case for Higher Taxes.” Last Monday (February 4), the Sun ran an opinion piece in response by Andrew Wilkinson (a former deputy minister currently seeking the BC Liberal nomination in Vancouver-Quilchena) entitled “Wave goodbye to skilled labourers.” Today, the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Taxes'
Response to a tax critic: the sky will not fall
February 8th, 2013 · Seth Klein · Comments Off · Taxes
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Seeking a Real Families First Agenda this First BC Family Day
February 7th, 2013 · Seth Klein · Comments Off · Children & youth, Economy, Employment & labour, Poverty, inequality & welfare, Taxes
By Seth Klein and Adrienne Montani On February 11, British Columbians will enjoy a well-deserved new stat holiday. With the inaugural Family Day, Premier Christy Clark has made good on a promise made during her bid for the BC Liberal leadership. The winter stretch needed a new long weekend, and many will appreciate this new-found [...]
Tags: child poverty·children·living wage·minimum wage·poverty·welfare
The dubious case for casinos
January 22nd, 2013 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · Economy, Taxes
I got way off my usual research agenda this morning for a business panel on CBC radio. The topic was the economics of casinos, the result of the City of Surrey voting down a new casino proposal. I have often disparagingly compared stock markets to casinos, but in fact I knew relatively little about the [...]
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What’s next for BC’s carbon tax?
January 14th, 2013 · Marc Lee · 1 Comment · Climate change, Energy, Environment, resources & sustainability, Taxes
An oped of mine was published by the Vancouver Sun today: What’s next for BC’s carbon tax? Marc Lee Climate change forced its way onto the political agenda in 2012, as Hurricane Sandy ripped through the northeast United Stages just days before the election. And while action remains frustratingly slow, extreme weather disasters in the [...]
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Correction to carbon pricing paper
January 10th, 2013 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · Climate change, Energy, Environment, resources & sustainability, Taxes
An error has been found in my 2011 carbon pricing paper. In Table 2 on page 17 the results presented at the time of publication were per capita not, as stated, per household. Runs modeled using Statistics Canada’s Social Policy Simulation Database and Model (SPSD/M) for carbon tax must be done on a household basis. [...]
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A call for courageous leadership from BC parties in 2013
January 8th, 2013 · Seth Klein · 3 Comments · Climate change, Economy, Environment, resources & sustainability, Poverty, inequality & welfare, Taxes
As we head towards the May 2013 BC election, what I’d most love to hear from BC’s political leaders is evidence that they are ready to get serious about the defining issues of this era. In particular, I’m going to be looking for real leadership on the issues of climate change and inequality (what we [...]
Tags: campaign·Climate change·inequality·Liberals·NDP·poverty reduction
Polling on taxes – response to a critic
December 11th, 2012 · Shannon Daub · 3 Comments · Provincial budget & finance, Taxes
On November 29, the CCPA released an opinion research study led by myself and Randy Galawan called Beyond the 1%: What British Columbians think about taxes, inequality and public services. The study involved an extensive online survey (poll) of a broad sample of British Columbians, conducted by Environics Research, and nine group interviews held in [...]
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British Columbians are ready for a thoughtful conversation about taxes, inequality, public services
December 4th, 2012 · Shannon Daub · Comments Off · Provincial budget & finance, Taxes, Transparency & accountability
An oped in today’s Vancouver Sun, outlining key lessons from CCPA opinion research released last week: Beyond the 1%: What British Columbians think about taxes, inequality and public services. British Columbians ready for a thoughtful talk about taxes A growing consensus that extreme inequality is as much an economic problem as it is a moral [...]
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BC is giving away its natural gas
November 21st, 2012 · Marc Lee · 6 Comments · Economy, Energy, Environment, resources & sustainability, Taxes
In September, when the BC government tabled its First Quarterly Report on the BC Budget the big story was on plummeting natural gas royalties, which means cuts to public services in order to keep the budget balance in check. As the update states on page 6: The deterioration in natural gas royalty revenue is the main [...]
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