NDP proposed new tax cuts fail to move the needle on equality in BC

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During the BC election campaign, both the Conservatives and NDP put significant tax cuts on the table in their policy platforms. While they were framed as a way of easing pressures on the cost of living, economist Alex Hemingway points out that tax cuts will do little to address the structural inequality underlying those cost pressures. Alex Hemingway is a Senior Economist and Public Finance Policy Analyst at the CCPA’s BC Office.