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{
"time": "2016-02-19 12:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Dr. Robin Boadway (Emeritus Professor, Department of Economics, Queen's University, As an Individual)",
"fr": "M. Robin Boadway (professeur \u00e9m\u00e9rite, D\u00e9partement d'\u00e9conomie, Queen's University, \u00e0 titre personnel)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4211286\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you for inviting me, Mr. Chair and members of the committee.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4211287\" data-originallang=\"en\">What I'd like to do is make a number of comments on three general areas having to do with tax policy.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4211288\" data-originallang=\"en\">The first area is the growing inequality of income and wealth and what measures should complement the announced increase in the top income tax rate and the reduction in the middle tax rate.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4211289\" data-originallang=\"en\">To offset the benefit of the middle bracket tax cut for higher income groups, I think it would be wise to increase the taxes in the brackets for numbers three and four, so that\u2014 </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4211286\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le pr\u00e9sident, honorables membres du Comit\u00e9, je vous remercie de m'avoir invit\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4211287\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais formuler un certain nombre d'observations sur trois domaines g\u00e9n\u00e9raux qui concernent les politiques fiscales.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4211288\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le premier domaine est l'in\u00e9galit\u00e9 croissante des revenus et de la richesse, et les mesures qui devraient accompagner l'augmentation du taux d'imposition maximal et la r\u00e9duction du taux d'imposition moyen qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 annonc\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4211289\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour compenser l'avantage de la r\u00e9duction de la fourchette d'imposition moyenne pour les groupes de revenu sup\u00e9rieur, je pense qu'il serait avis\u00e9 d'augmenter les imp\u00f4ts dans les troisi\u00e8me et quatri\u00e8me fourchettes, pour que...</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/finance/42-1/8/dr-robin-boadway-1/",
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"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8801023",
"document_url": "/committees/finance/42-1/8/",
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}