{"id":2616,"date":"2010-04-06T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2010-04-06T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T22:44:00","slug":"tax-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"Tax Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a decade of non-stop tax cuts, the pendulum may be starting to swing in the other direction. In today’s Nova Scotia budget, Darrell Dexter has proposed a 2 point HST hike<\/a>. This comes on the heels of Jean Charest’s taxapalooza<\/a> last week, and Michael Ignatieff’s promise to cancel corporate tax cuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And even though they’re not exactly tax hikes<\/em>, Gordon Campbell survived his carbon tax and has, like McGuinty, gone the harmonization route.<\/p>\n

So what gives? Have Canadian politicians, renowned for risk-aversion, grown bolder? Or have ballooning deficits forced their hand? Remember, in the 90s, most Canadian governments cut their way out of recession – so why tax their way out this time?<\/p>\n

I don’t have the answer, but seeing the reaction to these proposals will put to the test the old theory that raising taxes is electoral suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a decade of non-stop tax cuts, the pendulum may be starting to swing in the other direction. In today’s Nova Scotia budget, Darrell Dexter has proposed a 2 point HST hike. This comes on the heels of Jean Charest’s taxapalooza last week, and Michael Ignatieff’s promise to cancel corporate tax cuts. And even though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}