Tax cuts must be reversed to stem the bleeding – response to fiscal update

December 17, 2024  For Immediate Release (Winnipeg, Treaty One):  Manitoba’s Second Quarter Fiscal Update makes clear that the provincial government must reopen the conversation on provincial revenue and progressive taxation.  The ongoing large deficit means the Manitoba government …

Time to End Tax Cuts and Invest in Public Services

By Molly McCracken and Jim Silver The cumulative impact of decades of regressive tax cuts has created the severe social, economic, and environmental problems seen daily in Manitoba. Tax cuts are not free money. They take dollars from …

Tax Cuts under the Doer Government

Tax cuts are bad fiscal policy

Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press August 28, 2024 Since the oil price shocks of 2021/22, gas taxes have become highly political in Canada. Premier Smith in Alberta, and Premier Ford slashed gas taxes in 2021/22. In …

Tax cuts benefit men more than women 

By Jess Klassen Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press March 8, 2024

Cut costs the public

Molly McCracken’s letter to the Winnipeg Free Press Editor, January 19, 2024

Tax cut policies stall affordable housing action

Kirsten Bernas and Shauna MacKinnon Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 26, 2023

Is this a Tax Cut Election? Political parties’ focus on tax cuts will deplete provincial coffers while gifting millions to corporations.

September 11, 2023

Opposition Parties Need to Stand Firm Against Tax Cuts for the Rich

By Jesse Hajer

Make no mistake, Manitoba Budget tax cuts are a gift to the rich

By Niall Harney Previously published in the Brandon Sun and The Winnipeg Free Press, March 23, 2023 The 2023 Manitoba Budget released on March 7 announced close almost $1 billion in revenue cuts. Despite claims about affordability for …