Toward an adult conversation on taxes: unexpurgated analysis for Michael Ignatieff

The critical general characteristics of taxes as a governing instrument—a sort of primer. It seems inevitable that whomever is PM will have to raise taxes (and reduce expenditures) to reduce the burgeoning deficit.

"The only way that you can beat down bad ideas is to drag them into the public square, subject them to scrutiny and finally to a furious pummelling at the hands of muscular reason," (Monte Solberg, Ottawa Sun, Sept. 25, 2009)

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