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Ron Paul in Calgary
Last Friday, I attended the Ron Paul speech at the “Making Alberta Safe for Capitalism” summit. This was at the Westin Ballroom in downtown Calgary. I was among approximately 300 attendees, which...
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Thatcher Was No Friend of Capitalism and Freedom
After a week of Thatcher worship, it’s not too late to insulate ourselves against all the post-death propaganda. Rothbard on Thatcher: Thatcherism is all too similar to Reaganism: free-market rhetoric...
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LOL Justin Trudeau
Ok, so it is very possible that Justin Trudeau is an annoying, spoiled brat who hungers for power. Let us be charitable and see if we can find anything good about Justin Trudeau. Now the leader of the...
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Harper: Free Trade is a Tax Break for China
Harper was criticized the other day for wanting to increase taxes on various imported consumer goods. There is no defense for raising taxes ever. This is even more important when Canada will be soon in...
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Trusting Bureaucrats and Politicians Will Cost You Money
Before the financial crisis in Cyprus, the Cypriot president assured voters that the government would never seize their bank deposits. Then guess what happened? On April 4, CMR asked if the Canadian...
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RRSPs Are a Government Trap
Tax season. Ugh. Around this time of year, you always get a lot of people chattering about how RRSPs are totally awesome. Mises wrote that a fundamental category of human action is preferring goods now...
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European Union Wants to Tax Heavy Crude from Oil Sands
The European Union is falling apart. It is desperate for money. The bureaucrats in Brussels will tax anything they can. Now the EU wants to modify its fuel quality directives, so that refiners who use...
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Canada Needs Its Own “IRS Scandal”
While Canada is abuzz with the “Duffy Scandal,” the American news has been making a big deal about the “IRS scandal.”In this case, the IRS targeted groups with “conservative”-sounding names for special...
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Alberta Flood 2013: Redford Promises “Whatever It Takes.” Uh Oh.
Premier Redford will help Alberta “no matter the cost.” How generous. But the Alberta government has no money. It’s all spent. So what her promises really mean is the people who have already suffered...
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NDP’s Royalty Review Czar Dave Mowat Is a Climate Change Propagandist Trained...
I knew I smelled a rat when Notley’s NDP chose ATB President and CEO Dave Mowat to head the royalty review board. In a process that will surely revolve around “fairness” and other uneconomic nonsense,...
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Observations on the Royalty Review Panel Open House
In the following I will share the observations of a man who attended last night’s Royalty Review Panel Open House in Calgary, originally posted on Instaface or Facegram or whatever it’s called. This...
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Election 2015: NDP and Liberals Want to Tax Stock Options 100%
Another day, another foolish campaign policy proposal. This time, the NDP and Liberals have proposed one of their dumbest policies yet: 100% tax on stock options, instead of the usual 50%. They think...
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The New York Times Recognizes that Taxation is Robbery
But only when ISIS does it. To paraphrase a friend: “Only the NYT could write 2000 words about ISIS and not recognize that it is their preferred model.”
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Should We Subsidize CO2?
Alberta’s NDP government passed its carbon tax law today. Many agree that it is one of the stupidest taxes ever created, however even many arguments against the tax accept the basic premise that CO2 is...
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Notley Defends Her Beer Tax
By pointing to her new corporate welfare program for some Alberta brewers (You get subsidies if you are small and stay small — that’s obviously helpful for one’s growth strategy!)
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How Much Do We Subsidize Fossil Fuels?
Some people have a confused idea of what counts as a subsidy. In the minds of anti-oil radicals, not collecting more taxes from fossil fuel producers and consumers is a subsidy to fossil fuels. That’s...
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Canada’s Import Laws and Taxes Are Dumb
At least that seems like a reasonable conclusion when it takes the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, a Federal Appeals Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada to figure out… whether this or that...
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