Category: Just The Asides

Why is the government waiting to proclaim the PSSA? I thought there was a financial emergency, and dire warnings of our precarious fiscal position. But it has been 2 1/2 years. Don’t they need it yet?

If a tax by any other name would be as taxing, could wage freezes be indirect taxation? And if members of public sector unions are paying more in taxes to support public services, would this qualify as discriminatory taxation?

I don’t understand why the government doesn’t think it should have to compete in its own labour market. It does everywhere else.

If businessmen go into government to bring the principles of good business to government, then shouldn’t they act like good businessmen when they get there?

Ok, Manitoba. Politicizing the Office of the Provincial Comptroller?

That takes the poop-cake.