Payroll Taxes: Killers of jobs, killers of wages
The second in the AIMS Labour Market Commentary Series shows how payroll taxes reduce wages and eliminate job opportunities.
Killer of jobs, killer of wages:
Who really pays the cost of payroll taxes
Paying the price of minimum wages
How the minimum wage keeps the working poor down
Minimum Wages: Operating with a blunt instrument
The first in the AIMS Labour Market Commentary Series shows how the minimum wage keeps the working poor down and eliminates job opportunities.
Remind me again how gas regulation is “working”?
Gas price regulation costs money and we're the ones paying. That's the conclusion of a report commissioned by the Nova Scotia government. When the same government announced it will continue gas price regulation, AIMS Senior Policy Analyst Bobby O'Keefe had to ask why. The resulting op-ed appeared in newspapers across the province.
Hands Off!
From iPhones to WiFi, the CRTC is looking to hold your hand along the new media cyber-road. This Commentary explains why the Commission needs to let go.
Chicken Little Eats Crow
This paper suggests that Canadian governments build on the existing auction model for wireless communications licences. Among the recommendations, the paper concludes governments should embrace auctions as the means of allocating other assets, such as timber rights, drilling rights, and broadcasting licences.
Under the hammer:
The success of wireless auctions should be extended to other areas
Not all businesses need zero taxation
AIMS presentation to the New Brunswick legislative committee on tax reforms prompted this Letter to the Editor in the Telegraph Journal. Professor David Murrell suggests that a zero percent tax rate would be better targeted at exporters, which he says academics recognize as the true driver of economic development.
What is the Government Good for Anyway? Liberty, Property and Regulation
Legal theorist Richard Epstein looks at what's needed to make the current system less intrusive, less regulatory, and less government-dominated.