Archive for July, 2010
Tax Pirates to Storm Ashore in Atlantic Canada
The Telegraph Journal is reporting that the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is eying an office in Halifax in order to establish a regional pressence as Atlantic Canada’s taxpayer watchdog. As a CTF director, I know nothing about this (…) but in the spirit of injecting some excitment into Atlantic Canada’s political sphere, I’ve included a [...]
July 21, 2010
Tags: Atlantic Canada, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, The Real Mckenzies Posted in: Blog Content 
One Comment
10% of the Problem: MP Junk Mail
An edited version of the following article appeared in the Winter 2009 edition of The Taxpayer. Since this article’s publishing, Parliament has taken steps to limit the practice of “10 percenters.”
What is another word for ‘free money’ on Parliament Hill? ‘Taxpayer money’, ‘your money’, ‘not my money’ are all fair synonyms. It’s therefore [...]
July 20, 2010
Tags: 10, 10 percenters, The Taxpayer Posted in: Blog Content, Published One Comment
