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Homer on the Range

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On heebie-jeebies past and present

Richard M. Bird

Richard M. Bird teaches in the International Tax Program at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

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Richard M. Bird

Is NAFTA Pushing Our Taxes Down?

Probably not, but our fiscal freedom is narrowing nevertheless September 2005
Amantra frequently heard from those concerned with our growing integration with our powerful neighbours to the south is that the inevitable outcome of this process will be a downward spiral of Canada’s health and social policies to American levels. One reason this will happen, it is said, is because the size of the Canadian public sector will have to shrink as our taxes are lowered to American…