“With wealth concentration reaching staggering levels in Canada, polls show broad support for a wealth tax but lots of opposition from the elite. This easy-to-read book explains why. Share the Wealth makes a compelling and convincing case that Canadians would benefit enormously from an end to ‘wealth hoarding’ in Canada.”
- Linda McQuaig, author of The Sport & Prey of Capitalists
“How will governments raise revenues to pay for improved public goods and services in a post-COVID economy? There is a broad policy consensus that a more sustainable, resilient and inclusive economy will require a more progressive approach to income and wealth taxes. Gauvin and MacEwen have done an excellent job summarizing the literature and arguments. Read this book.”
- Kevin Page, President of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy, University of Ottawa, former Parliamentary Budget Officer of Canada
“Gauvin and MacEwen believe that we do not have to live in a Canada where those at the top get growing incomes, and lower taxes, while everyone else puts up with income stagnation and public service cuts. The inequality of COVID-19’s impacts only heightens the urgency of their proposals for fairer taxes and better policies. A book that deserves to be widely read.”
- Lars Osberg, Professor of Economics at Dalhousie University, author of The Age of Increasing Inequality, former president of the Canadian Economics Association
“Angella MacEwen and Jonathan Gauvin pool their considerable knowledge into a well-researched and logical argument in favour of a wealth tax and other fiscal tools to reduce inequality. Their book is a timely exploration of the most troubling economic fallout of the pandemic, tackling myths and proposing solutions with rigour.”
- Heather Scoffield, Toronto Star economics columnist and Ottawa Bureau Chief
“Share the Wealth details the consequences of inequality and shreds common propaganda against wealth and corporate taxes in this accessible guide on why these taxes are necessary—urgent, even, especially in the shadow of COVID-19—to transform Canada into a healthier, kinder, and fairer nation.”
- Meghan Bell, author of “I'm Part of the 0.1 Percent and I Want a Wealth Tax” in The Walrus
“In Share the Wealth, authors Gauvin and MacEwen...envision a more just future offering specific, clearly articulated policy proposals to help us (re)learn how to share our wealth. This is very much the right book for this moment in Canadian history.”
- Daniel Hoyer, member of Resource Movement
“A splendid book. The writing is lucid and precise and the thinking cogently persuasive. The authors show how a series of tax cuts favouring the rich and corporations by governments, from Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin to Stephen Harper, left us with great inequality and $50 billion a year short to fund needed social programs. Their analysis shows precisely how the tax system favours the rich at the expense of the rest of us. And they provide solutions!”
- Ed Broadbent, chair of the Broadbent Institute and former leader of the NDP
"Their text is clear, chock full of the latest statistical data, and carefully pitched to a general audience."
- John Cruickshank Literary Review of Canada
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