00:45 -07:02 – The Trudeau Liberals spent a shocking $212,234. on the cover of the 2017 budget. That’s compared to $616. for the previous budget. It’s the tip of the iceberg, for 25 years Auditor Generals have been chronicling lavish and wasteful government spending in excess of $158 billion plus. Gone, disappeared and no one has gone to jail. If we have an obligation to pay taxes, does government not have the obiligation to spend it well? Show some progress at least? http://ow.ly/Pbgm30fSmgF

00:35 – 05:14 – Mike’s Editorial – “You’re innocent until proven guilty’ before the law EXCEPT when it comes to tax collection. There, Revenue Canada says its up to you to prove your innocence. Now the Federal Government is about to hand more power to the already mightly Revenue Canada to enhance their ability to declare more Canadian busiinesses “guilty”. 

….also from Michael: The Problem With Protesting Pipelines & Oil

 01:10 –  04:02 – Michael’s Editorial –  With the backlash against Trudeau’s tax plan, Michael wonders if we’ve seen the peak in the anti-success, anti -business anti 1% rhetoric. Certainly as – economist Thomas Sowell observed – “We’ve arrived at a time where we demonize those who produce, subsidize those who refuse to produce and canonize those who complain,” 

The fact that its been an abject economic and social failure everywhere its been tried. Just ask the people in Venezuela, Cuba or even France. But that doesn’t bother the likes of Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders or a growing number of millennials. 

…also Michael’s Interview of the Week: The Federal Reserve Wants To Change Your Financial Life

In 2008, when BC introduced the carbon tax it was revenue neutral. Any revenue collected would be returned in the form of lower corporate and indiviudal taxes so there was no net increase in the government’s tax revenues.  That’s now changed in BC and Alberta – like any other tax, the carbon tax will be a revenue generator, which is bad news for the economy. 

…related from Michael: In The Name of Fairness