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The New Oligarchs

We traded churches and merchants for unions and academics. That's not progress.

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Mar 08, 2021
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The 2018 provincial tax review found that more than 75% of respondents surveyed for the report were surprised by very basic facts about provincial government finances.

Nearly 85% of them didn’t know how much money the government spent per person.

We are not talking anything that would take much in the way of research skills.  It’s just basic math using tw…

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