Trickle-down economics: the hoax that will not die

The trend toward lower taxes has tilted the economy in favour of the well-off and left average people struggling to get by on stagnant wages and diminished prospects.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is already playing the tax-cut card, as has every leader of Canada’s main right-wing party going back 40 years, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

June 7, 2023

OTTAWA—As the next federal election draws nearer, Canadians will be hearing a continuing refrain from the Conservatives on the need for tax cuts to reduce the tax burden and help spur economic growth.

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