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Why Canada needs a law that gives workers the right to govern their workplace
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Why Canada needs a law that gives workers the right to govern their workplace Original
A major fault line in contemporary society is that while our political lives are governed by democratic principles, our economic lives largely are not. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, Maple Leaf Foods experienced an outbreak in its Brandon, Man. factory. Not only were workers ordered to keep working in unsafe conditions, they were forced to work overtime. Walmart has long been accused of forbidding its cashiers from sitting down, even during long shifts.
Against Desert: Mysticism, Ableism, and the Level Playing Field
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4 reasons Canada needs part-time work for all
It has been decades since the feminist movement of the 1960s exploded across the world demanding gender equality. Though much has changed, gender inequality remains profound. Canadian women don’t earn as much as men, single mothers own less than half the wealth of single fathers, and the victims of domestic abuse are overwhelmingly women. The United Nations predicts that if we continue on the same path we’re currently on, global gender equality will not be reached for 300 years, and 180 in Canada.
We Should All Be Working Part Time for Full-Time Pay
We live in a time of crisis. Consider three interwoven ones. First, climate change. Every year brings more forest fires and less breathable air, the result of an economic system predicated on burning fossil fuels and working long hours to fuel energy-intensive consumption. Second, overwhelmed families. Even though people in the Global North live in the richest societies the world has ever known, the majority still find themselves overworked and overwhelmed.
A Piggy Bank Puzzle
The past several years have seen an uptick in books warning that growing economic disparity in rich countries is a major and immediate concern. From Chrystia Freeland’s Plutocrats and, especially, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century to Bernie Sanders’s It’s OK to Be Angry about Capitalism, such books argue that rising income gaps and wealth concentration among an increasingly small super-elite are immoral, bad for democracy, and socially destabilizing.
Two types of democratic representation for the two wills of the people
Corresponding Author Tom Malleson Social Justice & Peace Studies, King's University College at Western University, London, Canada Correspondence Tom Malleson, Social Justice & Peace Studies, King's University College at Western University, London, Canada. Email: tommalleson@gmail.com Search for more papers by this author
A Care Manifesto" by Jennifer Nedelsky and Tom Malleson
Title Part-Time for All: A Care Manifesto Files Find Full Text Available in the Osgoode Hall Law School Library Source Publication Nedelsky, Jennifer, and Tom Malleson, Part-Time for All: A Care Manifesto (New York, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Apr.
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Western University professor Tom Malleson presents five reasons for levying high taxes on the very rich, from the environment to (reduced) social friction
Why We Should Abolish the Super-Rich
All of this could be possible. Many countries, the historical record shows, have successfully implemented stiff tax rates, with the United States one of them. During World War II, the U.S. federal tax rate on income in the top tax bracket hit an astonishing 94 percent. Top tax rates in nations like the UK, Sweden, and Denmark surpassed 90 percent into the 1970s. Overall, the top U.S. tax rate averaged 81 percent for nearly half a century, from 1932 through 1980.
Canada has the tools it needs to make a wealth tax work
Ward McAllister, a wealthy New Yorker, recently threatened that if the U.S. Congress were to move ahead with its plans to levy a high income tax, the plan would backfire because it would simply drive “rich men to go abroad.” OK, it wasn’t that recent. It was 1894, and the tax McAllister was scandalized by was the terrifying rate of two per cent. If McAllister’s great-grandchildren are still rich, they’re probably singing the same tune today.
Taxing the wealthy to the hilt would make us all much better off
In Canada today, one person - media magnate David Thomson - possesses roughly CA$73 billion while more than 235,000 people are homeless. In Toronto alone, 187 homeless people died on the streets in 2022. What can be done to address these kinds of disparities? Though most people naturally dislike inequality, it's often argued that raising taxes on the rich will do more harm than good by damaging incentives and investment, thereby slowing economic growth and ultimately hurting us all.
Why We Should Abolish The Super Rich
The rationales for accepting vast inequalities of income and wealth simply do not hold up. By Tom Malleson, Inequality.org In many parts of the world, inequality is spiraling out of control. The basic facts have become depressingly familiar. In the United States, the top 0.1 percent now control about the same amount of wealth as the bottom 90 percent of the entire population. Globally, the richest eight individuals possess as much wealth as half the entire planet.
Taxing the wealthy to the hilt would make us all much better off
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Taxing the wealthy to the hilt would make us all much better off Original
In Canada today, one person — media magnate David Thomson — possesses roughly CA$73 billion while more than 235,000 people are homeless. In Toronto alone, 187 homeless people died on the streets in 2022. What can be done to address these kinds of disparities? Though most people naturally dislike inequality, it’s often argued that raising taxes on the rich will do more harm than good by damaging incentives and investment, thereby slowing economic growth and ultimately hurting us all.
Why We Should Abolish the Super Rich
And all those accountants and lawyers who actually do the tax avoiding for their rich clients? We could begin a serious effort to also hold them criminally liable for helping rich people use tax havens to avoid paying their fair tax share. All of this could be possible. Many countries, the historical record shows, have successfully implemented stiff tax rates, with the United States one of them.
No, the Rich Don’t Deserve Their Wealth
A foundational belief in capitalist societies is the notion that individuals deserve the income they receive in the market: your bank account reflects your talent and efforts and is therefore rightly yours, and yours alone. A recent survey found that 66 percent of Republicans believe the rich are rich because they “worked harder” than other people, not because of other advantages in life. As the late conservative activist Herman Cain put it, “Don’t blame Wall Street. Don’t blame the big banks.
Opinion | Income taxes won’t cut it: we desperately need a wealth tax Original
For 100 years, the primary method for dealing with inequality has been the income tax. Unfortunately, this tool is becoming increasingly inadequate for dealing with the new phenomenon of superrich billionaires. The richest person in Canada, David Thompson, is estimated to possess family wealth of $77 billion.
Fired Up
Young people aren’t apathetic or entitled. Young people are hungry for change and ready for action. Written by young activists from the frontlines of a wide array of social justice movements, the Fired Up series is for all young people who want to know more about what to change and how to change it. Each book provides a short and concise look at the basics and gives readers of all ages the best reasons to get fired up and take action.
Nothing to Lose but Our Fear
Praise Jeffries has assembled the words of this impressive group of thinkers in Nothing to Lose But Our Fear to offer valuable insights into the ways fear is mobilized by neoliberal, patriarchal states around the globe, as well as how fear rallies individuals to act together in resistance.
Time for white folks to pick a side in the fight for racial justice
For those of us who care about racial justice, these are dire times. It seems like every day my Facebook feed is filled with a litany of new tragedies. In El Paso, a 21-year-old gunman posted a 2,300-word screed on the far-right website 8chan and then killed 22 people, mostly Latinos. In Norway, a white supremacist opened fire at a mosque.
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