TITLE

Ideological battleground

PUB. DATE
October 1996
SOURCE
Canada & the World Backgrounder;Oct96, Vol. 62 Issue 2, p4
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on social programs in Canada. High cost of cradle-to-grave social programs; Many groups who would like to lower services and lower taxes; Attempts of programs to redistribute wealth; Wealthy who say there is a better way to even out the differences in income; Views of Gordon Gibson, Fazil Mihlar, John Kenneth Galbraith and others; Minimum wage; Welfare; Supply-management system. INSETS: Mustard versus Spencer;Two routes (wealth redistribution);The discipline of the marketplace.
ACCESSION #
9612047505

Tags: CANADA -- Social conditions;  WEALTH;  DISTRIBUTION (Economic theory)

 

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