Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word

A Different Take on Taxes in Canada
Herausgeber: Himelfarb, Alex; Himelfarb, Jordan

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Produktbeschreibung

Taxes are the hinge that joins us to each other, to the common good, and to the future. So how did mention of the topic become political taboo? This book attempts to resurrect the Canadian tax debate. It challenges the view that any tax is a bad tax and provides broad directions for a fairer and smarter approach.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781554588329
• ISBN-10: 1554588324
• Artikelnr.: 36955779

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word: A Different Take on
Taxes in Canada, edited by Alex Himelfarb and and Jordan Himelfarb
Preface
Introduction: Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word Alex Himelfarb and Jordan
Himelfarb
Part 1: The Conversation Today
Chapter 1: The Economic Consequences of Taxing (and Spending) Jim
Stanford
Chapter 2: Taxes and Transfers in Canada: The Federal Dimension Robin
Boadway
Chapter 3: Taxes and Public Services Hugh Mackenzie
Chapter 4: Benefits from Public Services Hugh Mackenzie
Chapter 5: Canadian Public Opinion on Taxes Frank Graves
Part 2: How We Got Here
Chapter 6: Taxation and the Neo-liberal Counter-Revolution: The Canadian
Case Matt Fodor
Chapter 7: A Brief Potted History of Ottawa's Tax Cut Mania Eugene Lang
and Philip DeMont
Chapter 8: Tax Cuts and Other Cheap Parlour Tricks Trish Hennessey
Part 3: A Different Take on Taxes
Chapter 9: Towards A Fair Canadian Tax System Marc Lee and Iglika Ivanova
Chapter 10: Carbon Taxes: Can a Good Policy Become Good Politics?
Stéphane Dion
Chapter 11: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference: The Case of
Financial Transaction Taxes Toby Sanger
Chapter 12: We Need to Simplify and Re-focus the Tax System C. Scott
Clark
Part 4: How to Get There
Chapter 13: Canada's Conservative Ideological Infrastructure: Brewing a Cup
of Cappuccino Conservatism Paul Saurette and Shane Gunster
Conclusion
Contributors
Index
Contributor Biographies (alphabetically)
Robin Boadway received his Ph.D. in Economics from Queen's University and
has taught there since 1973, with year-long interruptions to take up a
post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago (1976-77) and
visiting scholar positions at the University of Oxford (1980-81) and
University Catholique de Louvain (1986-87). He was President of the
Canadian Economics Association (1996-97) and servied as the Editor of the
Canadian Journal of Economics (1987-93) and Journal of Public Economics
from 2003-2008. Professor Boadway was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada in 1986 and an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2008, and was the
Distinguished CES Fellow at the University of Munich in 2009. He is
currently President of the International Institute of Public Finance.
Scott Clark is currently President of C. S. Clark Consulting. Mr. Clark
served as Deputy Minister of Finance (1997-2000), and Senior Adviser to the
Prime Minister (2001). Mr. Clark was Canada's Executive Director to the
International Monetary Fund (1989-1992), Canada's G-7 Deputy (1992-1994),
and Canada's Executive Director to the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (2001-2006). Mr. Clark has a PhD in Economics from the
University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Clark is a frequent commentator
on public policy issues on CBC radio and TV, CTV, and BNN. He comments
regularly on Public policy issues (with Peter Devries) at www.3dpolicy.ca.
Philip DeMont, an economist, veteran financial journalist and former
Ontario government adviser, is co-author (with Eugene Lang) of Turning
Point: Moving Beyond Neoconservatism.
Stéphane Dion was Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs between 1996 and
2003, longer than any other Canadian since Confederation. In that capacity,
he was instrumental in bringing countless federal-provincial negotiations
to fruition and played a major role in the promotion of Canadian unity. As
Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005, he secured one of the
greenest budgets in the history of Canada and contributed to the rescue of
the Kyoto Protocol while chairing the UN Conference on Climate Change, held
in Montreal in 2005. In 2006, having been elected as Leader of the Liberal
Party of Canada, he proposed a visionary plan to make Canada richer, fairer
and greener, with its core being a green tax shift that would have included
a revenue neutral carbon tax. Following the 2008 election, he retained his
seat as Member of Parliament for Saint-Laurent-Cartierville, a seat he has
won seven times in a row since 1996. Before entering politics, Stéphane
Dion taught Political Science at Université de Moncton and Université de
Montréal. As an academic and politician, he has authored numerous
publications on a wide array of Canadian and international issues,
including the complexities of climate change negotiations, global
environmental policies, and universal carbon pricing. Born in Quebec City,
he studied at Université Laval before obtaining a Doctorate in Sociology
from the Institut d'études politiques in Paris, France. He was awarded an
Honorary Doctorate by the Carlos III University of Madrid.
Matt Fodor is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at
York University. His research interests include social democracy, Canadian
politics and the impact of neoliberalism on politics and public policy. He
as published numerous articles and papers in these areas.
As founder of EKOS Research Associates Inc., Frank Graves is one of the
country's leading applied social researchers, directing some of the largest
and most challenging social research assignments conducted in Canada. Under
the leadership of Mr. Graves, EKOS has earned a reputation for creative and
rigorous research in the areas of public policy, social policy and program
evaluation and as a leader in innovative survey techniques and methodology.
Mr. Graves graduated from Carleton University with an M.A. in Sociology and
has completed doctoral coursework in Sociology.
Shane Gunster teaches in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser
University. His current research interests include communication about
environmental issues (especially climate change) and the politics of
energy.
Trish Hennessy is director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives'
(CCPA) Ontario office. Trish is the founding director of the CCPA's income
inequality project. She is a former newspaper journalist and has an M.A. in
Sociology from OISE/University of Toronto, a B.S.W. from Carlton
University, and a B.A. in Sociology from Queen's University.
Iglika Ivanova is an Economist and Public Interest Researcher at the BC
Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. She is a frequent
media commentator and public speaker on BC public policy issues, and has
authored numerous studies and articles for the CCPA. Iglika researches and
writes on issues of government finance, taxation and privatization, and how
they relate to the accessibility and quality of public services in BC. Her
other research investigates issues and trends in the Canadian labour
market, and in particular income inequality and low wage work.
Eugene Lang is Co-founder, Canada 2020, and teaches in the Graduate School
of Public and International Affairs at Glendon College, York University. An
award winning and best-selling author, Lang has co-written two books on
Canadian public policy and has published over one hundred articles and
essays. He worked in the federal government for twelve years, including at
Finance Canada, and was educated at The University of Western Ontario,
Queen's University, and the London School of Economics, where he studied as
a Chevening Scholar.
Marc Lee is Senior Economist for the Centre for Policy Alternatives where
he writes on a variety of economic and social policy issues. He has
published on a wide range of topics from poverty and inequality to
globalization and international trade to public services and regulation.
Marc is the Co-Director of the Climate Justice Project, a five-year
research partnership with the University of British Columbia, examining the
links between climate change policies and social justice. Despite being
"classically trained,&rduqo; with an MA in Economics, Marc was the past
Chair of the Progressive Economics Forum, a national network of heterodox
economists.
Hugh Mackenzie is principal in an economic consulting business, Hugh
Mackenzie and Associates, based in Toronto. He has worked for over 40 years
in a variety of capacities related to public policy development in the
trade union movement, the private sector, and at all three levels of
government. He is presently part of a team at the Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives conducting a series of research studies on income and
wealth inequality in Canada. As part of the CCPA Alternative Budget
project, he produces an annual review of the Ontario budget. He is the
author of a regular series of in-depth analyses of the funding of
elementary and secondary education in Ontario. He holds a Masters degree in
economics from the University of Wisconsin (Madison).
Toby Sanger works as the economist for the Canadian Union of Public
Employees and previously served as the chief economist for the Yukon
government, principal economic policy advisor to the Ontario Minister of
Finance, economic advisor to First Nations and as a consulting economist.
Among other projects, he initiated the successful Ontario Savings Bond and
the Yukon Micro-Loan Programs. He produces CUPE's quarterly Economy at Work
publication and has published on a wide range of issues, including Fair
Shares: How Banks, Brokers and the Financial Industry Can Pay Fairer Taxes
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2011).
Jim Stanford is one of Canada's best-known economists. He works for the
Canadian Auto Workers union, and writes a regular economics column for the
Globe and Mail. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for
Social Research in New York City, and is the author of Economics for
Everyone (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2008). He was the
founding chairperson of the Progressive Economics Forum, Canada's network
of progressive economists.
Paul Saurette is Associate Professor, School of Political Studies,
University of Ottawa. He received his Ph.D., Political Science, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2001. His current research interests include
Ideology and politics of Conservatism and the "Right". He is the author of
The Kantian Imperative: Humiliation, Common Sense, Politics (University of
Toronto Press, 2005).