Nova Scotia’s Wefare Trap
Who do you think pays the highest tax rates in Nova Scotia? Those earning over $80,000? Over $100,000? Over $250,000? It's none of the above. In fact, the highest marginal tax rate in Nova Scotia falls on poor families with kids when those families struggle to move off welfare and into paid work.
Caught in the welfare trap: Region’s highest tax rates paid by poorest Atlantic Canadians
AIMS study recommends welfare and tax reforms on eve of new National Child Benefit payment by Ottawa
Taking the Road Less Taxing
In this paper, author Ken Boessenkool argues an increase in total cash payments to welfare families appears to satisfy the objective of reducing child poverty but the approach is shortsighted. Instead, provinces should heed the theory and evidence showing that poverty reduction over all but the shortest of time horizons is better achieved by easing the transition from welfare to work.
Canada’s political leaders leave voters little choice
In his bi-monthly column, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley ponders just what Canadians are looking for in their political leadership. Publication: CHH, June 7, 2000, SJT, June 12, 2000.
Rip Van Regulator: CBC president helps write CRTC obituary
“As the CRTC sinks slowly into irrelevancy, it will whine about protecting Canadian culture and the need for regions to be "reflected" to themselves and to the rest of us. (Is Toronto a region? We should be told.) “But it's too late. Pathetic pleas won't work because the CRTC is in no better position to survive than were those thousands of monks who, before Gutenberg, copied all books by hand. The regulatory tide is on its way out for the control-culture freaks of the CRTC.”
Atlantic Canada’s bind
In its editorial pages, The Globe and Mail has endorsed the analysis of Atlantic Canada's economic problems contained in the Institute's first book, Looking the Gift Horse in the Mouth. Moreover, it has recommended that the region's four premiers draw inspiration from it in their quest to end the region's dependence on transfers from Ottawa. Gift Horse was the first Institute publication to win the prestigious Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Prize for excellence in think tank publications.