The Power of Taxes: The Case for Investing in Canadians

By Stephen Dale and Trish Hennessy
National Office, CCPA
October 26, 2010

When you think about taxes, do you think about the $10,000 having a baby could cost if you lived in the U.S. and didn't have health insurance?

Do you think about an education system that allows even the children of poor families to become doctors, teachers, or engineers?

Government inspectors who make sure highway overpasses are repaired before they fall down, that meat packing plants don't poison their customers, that a city's water is safe to drink?

Read more about what our taxes buy us in this new primer.
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