Le quotidien montréalais The Gazette publie une lettre ouverte au sujet des coupures que doit subir la population et des baisses dimpôts passées qui en sont responsables ; The real cause of our current deficit is a series of tax cuts enacted since the early 2000s that have disproportionately benefited Quebec’s wealthiest citizens to an enormous degree. For example, according to L’Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-économiques (IRIS), the $950 million in tax cuts the Liberals offered in 2007-2008 provided absolutely nothing to households with $25,000 in income, $110 to households with $50,000 in income and a whopping $1,859 to households with $150,000 in income. The cut to taxes on capital gains, which began in 2005-2006, was essentially a massive gift to the banks that deprives Quebec’s public coffers of $1.9 billion annually. Reversing these two tax cuts alone would almost eliminate Quebec’s deficit.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 19:24:25 +0000
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