Fast FACTS CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES - MANITOBA Aug 30, 2017 Cutting taxes is not the answer Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press August 9, 2017 Last week I was chatting with my uncle, care, leading to closures of three a retiree on a fixed income, about the Winnipeg ERs and rural EMS, plus health service cuts at the Winnipeg the elimination of specialized services Regiona. [...] This is far more The tax cut ideology assumes that than most of us could afford individually government is the problem, and from given that the average wage for a single that it follows that the public service person in Canada is $32,100. [...] The “Value for Money” percentage of GDP is the lowest in decades audit has not been released yet new cuts phone and is below the OECD average. [...] But it’s important to remember that for all Where can this revenue come from? The but the very richest among us, a decent carbon tax is an opportunity to reduce quality of life requires the provision of carbon pollution and recycle revenue public services. [...] If these tax cuts had not been made Manitoba would have been in a much better position to deal with the 2011 flood right after the 2008 Great Recession in the midst of declining federal transfers.
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