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Kevin Carr

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report ontario money pdf progressive taxation income inequality

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  • Kevin Carr on 07 Mar 12
     
    This report allegedly shows that progressive taxation does not decrease real income inequality.
Shantastic Marie

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inequality canada CCPA Occupy Thesis

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  • Occupy Wall Street is shining new light on the question of how to frame income inequality.
  • growinggap.ca project
  • income inequality elicited many and varied response
  • ...23 more annotations...
  • ambiguous
  • gap between the rich and poor
  • couldn’t identify with the rich
  • preventing them from identifying with the poor
  • Rather than see the rise of the richest and the misfortunes of the poorest as a product of a larger system that treats people differently – unfairly – five years ago, the Canadians in our focus groups saw the problem of systemic poverty from an individualistic standpoint
  • struggles of the middle class trying to keep afloat
  • talking about it in terms of the rich and the poor was an unconscious form of ‘othering’
  • And so we shifted the frame, focusing the lens on the gap between the rich and the rest of us
  • systemic problem of poverty
  • show how much the majority of Canadians have in common when it comes to income inequality – that it’s a systemic problem which affects us all
  • inequality heightens social tensions and threatens the health and vibrancy of our democracy
  • Five years and a worldwide recession later (a recession caused by irresponsible financial schemes hatched by a handful of bankers and traders on Wall Street), social unrest has been slowly unfolding
  • Arab Spring
  • G20 protests
  • Occupy Wall Street
  • fed up with a system that has wildly rewarded the richest one per cent while 99 per cent of Americans grapple with a Great Recession whose impact doesn’t seem to be letting up
  • They are showing us they are ready to stare down powerful corporate interests that prevent America from dealing with its serious fiscal and social issues.
  • large groups of citizens taking to the street
  • viewed by the establishment as anarchy
  • threat to rule of law or radical
  • hard limits of the kind of post-9/11 authoritarian constraints on perfectly law-abiding citizens who simply demand their right to be seen and heard. The 99 per cent, the new income inequality frame, has been ignored by governments of all levels, in far too many countries, for far too long.
  • The Wall Street occupants are showing us that when the system isn’t working for the 99 per cent, something is dangerously wrong with our democracy
  • new frame with which to view income inequality in North America: it is about the 99 per cent. It isn’t about individuals or individual failure. It’s about a system that’s failing the vast majority of citizens who believe things can be better than this.
Shantastic Marie

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OccupyMovement Import

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  • The perpetrators of the massive financial fraud have been allowed to slip quietly from the scene and continue business as usual. Our elected representatives in Washington have become so tightly intertwined with the financiers and bankers that public accountability has all but vanished. #OCCUPYWALLSTREET is all about breaking up that cosy relationship between money and politics and bringing the perpetrators of the financial crash of 2008 to justice.
  • greed is the corruptor
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