Roundup: On those marginal tax rates

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Given the debate that his happening south of the border when it comes to agitation for a 70 percent marginal tax rate on high earners, it’s only a matter of time before the left-leaning contingent of Twitter starts agitating for the same here. The problem, of course, is that you can’t simply import the same concepts between the US and Canada and expect it to be analogous, or at the very least analogous at one tenth the figures in the US. To demonstrate, economist Kevin Milligan took the Canadian data and mapped out what that would mean here. And lo, it’s not an analogous situation (though I suspect it won’t stop left-leaning Twitter from repeating these American talking points one bit).

https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1082383660857225217

https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1082385072718635008

https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1082386430175862784

https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1082387490319683584

https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1082411856315084805

Good reads:

  • Justin Trudeau had a call with Donald Trump, and made a point about working together to demand that China release the two detained Canadians.
  • The Canadian parliamentary delegation in China has been agitating on behalf of those two detained Canadians.
  • If you want to know how Trudeau spent his Christmas vacation, it was in Whistler, where he was joined by Olympian Mark McMorris.
  • The BC Court of Appeal has given the government more time to pass solitary confinement reform legislation, but has given additional guidelines for it.
  • A situation is developing in BC between the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en nation, and the RCMP enforcing an injunction for a pipeline company.
  • Recordings at the embassy in Havana believed to be of sonic attacks were…crickets. But the cause of the symptoms felt by staff remain unexplained.
  • Canadian officials in Bangkok have been assisting a Saudi woman trying to seek asylum from her abusive family.
  • Senator Linda Frum had her Twitter account hacked and some personal information revealed.
  • Jagmeet Singh says that he’ll still lead the NDP in the election, even if he loses the upcoming by-election in Burnaby South. Not sure it’s his call, frankly.
  • Maxime Bernier says name recognition is his party’s biggest challenge. I…don’t think that’s the biggest challenge, frankly.
  • Alberta’s new elections commissioner is facing a deluge of work as his office takes plenty of complaints about illegal donations and advertising violations.
  • Andrew Coyne suspects the CPPIB advertisements that have cropped up may be signs of government politicization of the arm’s length board.
  • Colby Cosh looks at the recent court decision in Vancouver as to whether police need a warrant to raid a tent.
  • Senator Jim Munson recalls his days in Centre Block as a journalist.

Odds and ends:

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