- .....ask anyone who is in debt and examine their spending habits!
- Stephen Gordon: Why not just give cash to the poor?
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Here is what I would like some staffer to ask next time NDP strategists are kicking around ideas for goods to subsidise or services that governments to provide at a discount in order to advance their agenda of reducing poverty and inequality:
"Why don't we just give low-income households money and let them spend it on what they need most?"
Because one you start asking yourself this question regularly, you're less likely to come up with policy proposals that are inefficient, inegalitarian and regressive.
- Raphael Alexander: The right to make stupid decisions
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Predictably, the Toronto Star feels gamblers must be protected from themselves in its assessment of the B.C. government's decision to increase the maximum online gambling limit from $120 a week to $9,999. Sure, it’s a little strange to increase the limit by such a wide margin, but the question is why the government feels it has the right to set limits on gambling at all. Perhaps it’s the ethical issue of a government that has launched anti-gambling addiction programs suddenly looking for new ways to make revenue by providing government-owned websites that promote gambling.
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