Canada doesn’t need a simpler tax code, more government humility or more basic fairness. The “most ambitious of five ideas” presented to Employment and Social Development Canada, a preposterous name for a state organ, was to let charities become involved in for-profit business to some extent. Instead, let me argue that it is wrong in principle for it to try. But will it really lower our blood pressure to see Ottawa make the tax code more complicated, especially for this trivial amount? But as long as the high and mighty think our problems include an insufficiently complex tax code and too little ham-fisted social engineering, our problems of governance and charity will keep getting worse.

Source: National Post November 07, 2017 15:56 UTC