When the Australian market was deregulated in 2000, the average price farmers received for raw milk almost doubled.
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September 4, 2018
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October 27, 2017
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The Labour government of Tony Blair took a more progressive approach to tuition.
August 4, 2017
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Government support for national airplane producers can come at a great cost.
May 20, 2016
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The U.S. golf industry marked National Golf Day on May 18 by holding more than 100 meetings with U.S. senators and representatives to promote tax deductibles for the game of golf.
March 15, 2016
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In remote areas in Canada, the cost of providing Internet service that meets the CTRC’s basic service objectives exceeds the price customers pay.
September 12, 2014
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“The construction of narratives,” wrote the late Neil Postman, “is a major business of our species.” The New York cultural critic, writing in a 2000 book, mused about how difficult it was to move people from myths to facts. Skip ahead to the 21st century, and a myth that needs an empirical reality check: Taxpayers subsidize private schools.
May 13, 2014
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January 31, 2014
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In the land of government plenty that vast landscape populated with the tax dollars of Canadians there is no shortage of politicians willing to hand out and defend subsidies to business and no dearth of corporations willing to take the cash.
January 30, 2014
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Souris Mayor Dave MacDonald recently told the Premier's Council on EI that recent changes to the federal EI program are killing his town.
Unfortunately, Mr. MacDonald did not note that Islanders receive three times as much as they contribute to the EI program. This was a subsidy in 2010 of about $150 million from citizens living elsewhere to people living on PEI.