Why Conservatives Suck!
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We completed 546 paired calls to 273 specialty clinics and found significant disparities in provider acceptance of Medicaid–CHIP versus private insurance across all tested specialties. Overall, 66% of Medicaid–CHIP callers (179 of 273) were denied an appointment as compared with 11% of privately insured callers (29 of 273) (relative risk, 6.2; 95% confidence interval [CI], 4.3 to 8.8; P<0.001). Among 89 clinics that accepted both insurance types, the average wait time for Medicaid–CHIP enrollees was 22 days longer than that for privately insured children (95% CI, 6.8 to 37.5; P=0.005).
Auditing Access to Specialty Care for Children with Public Insurance
66% denied an appointment. How long of a wait is that if you're denied? The specialties included in the study were for diabetes, asthma, severe fractures, seizures, depression, severe atopic dermatitis, severe depression, obstructive sleep apnea, and chronic bilateral otitis media.
8O The combined Federal and Provincial corporate income tax rate in Ontario in 2005 is 65% of what it was in 1960.
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It's a variety of factors that also include 'unknowns'.
Access to markets, seeking to sell directly into a domestic market (ie. China), labour, materials and/or the incentives in terms of tax holidays that might be negotiated in the back room.
In the end, what we do know is that there are a multitude of 'western' companies that have made the move for very tangible reasons, tax treatment being one of the factors.
8O The combined Federal and Provincial corporate income tax rate in Ontario in 2005 is 65% of what it was in 1960.
Corporate Income Tax Rate Database - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
The world is a very different place today as compared to 1965.... I don't think that the Japanese were evening exporting into North America at that time (any significant trade that is)
Glad to see you recognize there is more than one piece to the puzzle now. The fact is that tax rates have decreased concurrently with a decline in manufacturing.
Punitive taxes nail all of the elements that I listed.
Payroll taxes, corp taxes, sales-related taxes, etc.. Add in the indirect taxes dealing with licensing, regulatory, etc and that number increases yet again.
The taxation environment, as a whole, is what I was driving at.
The question here is why did they decrease?
On that note, the capital investment is not easily moved, especially for high cost ventures like building a plant, etc.. Once that money moves, it will take years and/or dramatic changes to justify that movement again.
The decrease in tax rates (in North America I assume) is changing because the private sector has spoken via actions to move capital, jobs, etc elsewhere.
What is a non-punative tax rate? The tax rate was dropping...if tax rates were a good predictor of manufacturing production moving then you should have said we would have more production now, not less.
Hobbling the horse has an even more detrimental effect
It's a comparative measure.. Case in point, CPR moved their H.O. and 2500 jobs from Montreal to Calgary and the reason that AB was chosen had much to do with the tax enviro being around 1/2 that of Quebec.
In comparison, with respect to the options available, Que's tax environment was punitive relative to AB... Same comparative analysis exists between nations.
This conversation seems to indicate that there is no separation of church and state but that politics is a blend - politics has become a religion to some and the new god is money.
Why cons "suck" is probably because they tend to use old ideas at times when things change and cannot imagine much more than a few years into the future. A good example of this is using market bubbles to fix the effects of previous bubbles.
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