Let's Talk Taxes. Job programs as vote buying
Peter Holle argues that politically driven job creation programs waste public funds and distort the economy. Borrowing and tax rises subsidize temporary jobs, costing far more than they return in taxes, reducing consumer spending and local investment, ultimately creating fewer unsubsidized jobs. The piece closes urging taxpayers to demand real gains for their pockets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Holle
Manitoba
The
Association of Manitoba Taxpayers
Boissevain Faces Rising Crime Wave This Summer
Boissevain residents grow wary as burglars strike stores and private homes. Break-ins include two more stores and four houses with entries via unlocked doors or pry bars. Valuable items taken include silver currency and rings. Nearby Virden eyes a new airstrip after town expropriates land for development. Sunward Corporation assets may relocate, keeping options to operate locally. Prairie Skills Inc gains provincial grant for 97 year old Deloraine fieldstone building upgrades.
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Rawlings Food
Prairie Skills Inc
Deloraine
Paper Clips and Historic Deloraine Building Preserve
PSI seeks to preserve the old municipal heritage building in Deloraine while allowing modern renovations to the roof and masonry. The 1991 engineer study labeled both urgent to protect the structure keeps its historic character intact as the first municipal heritage site in town. Meanwhile in Manitoba, two couples at Lake Metigoshe report a prowler near their campsite on Labour Day weekend. Police seize about 200 pounds of tobacco in three duffle bags from three suspects attempting cross border import by vehicle at Holiday Hills. Ducks Unlimited will keep wetlands and upland projects in the Virden area but has pulled its staff from the Virden office, a former joint venture with Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation.
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PSI Board
Deloraine
PSI
Saskatchewan
Holiday Hills
Lake Metigoshe
Ducks Unlimited
Virden
Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation
Partnership
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Boissevain
Sunward Corporation of
Denver
Colorado
Robert Eslinger
Roxann Barker
Voratto
Hamiota
Nesbitt Publishing Ltd
GST & Pst Inc
Gregory Nesbitt
Heather Dickson
Kelly McMurachy
Dorothy Barr
Pam Henton
Marcie Harrison
Wanda Strachan
CCNA
Yalel
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