Taxation

Paul Summerville • mars 12, 2013

Commentary on the carbon tax, disconnected, why hip surgery may become deadly, cross cultural management, where angels fear to tread, and how the Conservative Party keeps conservatives confused.

What I’m listening to today.

Concerto in C major for two trumpets RV 537: Allegro (third mvt.) by Vivaldi

Smart and efficient.

Paul Summerville • février 21, 2013

Commentary on the top 50 disruptive companies, dangerous business, the return of a bad idea, Simpson-Bowles 2.0, and the equality journey.

Shaking it up.

MIT Technology Review – 50 Disruptive Companies 2013
It might be easier to explain the 50 Disruptive Companies project by starting with what it is not.

 

The 50 Companies

Paul Summerville • décembre 8, 2012

Commentary on Asia’s two personalities, demographics in the United States, China’s difficult shift, Starbucks and corporate taxes, Beveridge was a Liberal, and Harper’s foreign takeover twist.

Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?

East Asia Forum -- A tale of two Asias
In recent months, two Asias, wholly incompatible, have emerged in stark relief.

Demographics in the US and public policy.

Paul Summerville • novembre 30, 2012

Commentary on Middle East oil consumption, the brave new world of capital preservation, Americans pay less tax today than in 1980, Egypt back to an Iranian future, the pigeons are coming home to roost in Japan, geographical distance and technological diffusion, and the Liberal leadership race should be about what exactly.

Generous fuel subsidies are resulting in a surprising trend in the Middle East, on the road to being oil importers.

Paul Summerville • novembre 5, 2012

Commentary on the difference over China, the US tax debate, the ground game, and politics and lies.

Is the biggest different between Obama and Romney over China?

Telegraph -- Crucial to the US election? It's the Chinese economy, stupid
As an economic forecaster, I am frequently asked what I am assuming about Tuesday's US Presidential election.

Related.

Paul Summerville • septembre 2, 2012

Commentary on the Fed, climate change skeptics, Syrian sadness, the case for inheritance taxes, figuring out poverty, and the Quebec problem.

James Grant on the Fed’s lost way.

Paul Summerville • juillet 25, 2012

Commentary on the opportunities from global migration, Spain’s downward spiral, avoiding taxes, Indian partition, and another big baseball contract.

21st century global migration offers great benefits to those countries smart enough to take advantage. (ed’s note: Miami is the city with the world’s highest foreign born population (51%), Toronto is fourth (45%), Vancouver is seventh (39%).

Paul Summerville • mai 11, 2012

Commentary on Greece exiting the Euro, economic smoke and mirrors, taxing churches, and shifting choice in Canada`s immigration strategy.

Greixt.

Financial Times -- Greece is falling out of Europe
The people of Greece have rejected austerity.

Related.

Paul Summerville • avril 17, 2012

Commentary on how countries go bust, thoughts on taxation, Chinese robots, and a left-centre merger plea.

Telling it like it is. Thanks to Ross of Toronto.

Sorisomail – Godfrey Bloom

American taxes.

The Atlantic -- How We Pay Taxes: 11 Charts
I'll come right out and say it: Taxes are awesome.

Paul Summerville • avril 10, 2012

Commentary on our interesting times, different economies in one, thoughts on simplifying the US tax code, background to a lousy market, Macbeth banned in Thailand, are politics polarising again, and what the government has to do in Canada to restore some faith in itself.

Much to fret about.

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Ultimately, the most successful societies find the balance between the twin virtues of inequality of outcomes and equality of opportunity.
 
The new politics must marry the twin virtues of unequal outcomes and equality of opportunity.
 
When too few get too much everybody ends up with less.
 
Can it be that striving for equality of opportunity however imperfect the process not only benefits the individual but also creates benefits for the society as a whole that are unintended but wonderful?
 
Economics must be a 'moral enterprise' as much as politics claims to be. Economic outcomes need to be framed in terms of right and wrong not just efficiency if only because these often align in surprising ways.
 
My vision of Canada is that any Canadian child from a family of limited circumstance can expect to have a chance at lifetime of unlimited opportunities.
 
Tax policy should be founded on the principle of generating steady tax revenues sufficient to maximise environmentally sustainable economic growth in order to fund fair government.
 
Public policy should be designed to decrease inequality before the law and increase equality of opportunity.
 
Capitalism is not the problem; the problem is what we do with capitalism.
 
Content is always more difficult to argue than conspiracy.
 
Let the state regulate and the market operate (most things).
 
Welfare strategies are best designed as a hand up not as a hand out.
 
Political debate should not be fact free fighting.
 
Explanation lasts longer than eloquence.
 
Always favour empowerment over dependency.
 
The most enduring public figures are embraced for the causes they fought for and not the concept of themselves they hoped others would remember them by.
 
Find your voice and don't be the echo of somebody else.