Russ Campbell’s Blog: Take your pick: more jobs or more social services
The recent promise by Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff to rollback to 2010 levels tax cuts scheduled to bring the tax rate on corporate profits to 15 per cent from the current 16.5 per cent (was 18.5 per cent in 2010) begs the question of just what, in Ignatieff’s view, is the role of corporations in society. Are they simply cash cows to be milked to provide social services or are they primarily the job-creation engine of our capitalist economy and the providers of the pay cheques so essential to individual and family wellbeing?