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PublicVoice.tv: A Place to Examine Issues that Matter

- Adam Clare

PublicVoice.tv wants you to learn more about the world around you and share your voice. The site is a fantastic resource for some thought-provoking videos focused on public policy. I encourage you to watch at least one of their videos; it’s like TED but for public policy.

PublicVoice.tv has been created as an online source for leading edge thinking and ideas about critical public policy questions.

PublicVoice seeks to be a forum for those issues that affect us all – and will give you unfiltered access to some of the best minds of our time, providing their unique insight in areas of great policy challenge, including pro-growth economic development, food security, the future of energy, the dynamics of poverty and citizen engagement – to name only a few.

Here’s a video on public service and citizen engagement in the information age:

Taxes Are Good

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I don’t know anybody enjoys paying taxes but I know of a lot people who enjoy using what our taxes pay for. Roads, drinkable water, and many other things we use everyday are provided to us from the government (at least in Canada) and these services cost money. A recent Canadian study has done the math and found that in 2006 the average per capita benefit from public services was about $16,952!

Believe it or not taxes are good for you.

The majority of Canadian households enjoy a higher quality of life because of the public services their taxes fund, the study argues.

According to the report, Canada’s Quiet Bargain: The Benefits of Public Spending, the cost of the public services that a typical Canadian household uses annually is the equivalent of about 50 per cent of its annual income.

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