Germany Breaking Under Weight of EU: What Parallels with Canada ?

The European Union (EU) has many fascinating parallels with the Canadian federation. Unspoken by many, the most obvious is that it is propped-up primarily by only two members: Germany and Britain in the EU and by Ontario and Alberta (now joined by BC and Saskatchewan) in Canada.
The corruption that fiscal dependency has wreaked on EU [...]

June 21, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  Comments Closed

Published in Report Magazine ~ Talkin’ Bout My Generation: Why the Coming Demographic Collapse Will Hurt Taxpayers Coming of Age

The following article appears in the June 2009 issue of Report Magazine.
“People try to put us d-down.”  That opening line from The Who’s 1965 hit ‘My Generation’ sums up, in reverse, the situation in which young and middle-aged taxpayers will soon find themselves.  In fact, it is a lack of people paying taxes that will [...]

June 10, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Published  4 Comments