Talk:The Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults

Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults

QUESTION: How does the "basic inome" concept differ from this Task Force's propsed "working income supplement/refundable tax credit for low-income Canadians"

Knowing the importance of language in categorization and because of the TD Bank's involvement, I was skeptical about why the cumbersome name "working income supplement/refundable tax credit for low-income Canadians" was used if it indeed was, effectively, the equivalent of the basic income concept. I wanted to learn more about who was behind the Canadian Newswire article about the proposal.

Google produced: Toronto City Summit Alliance and the Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults (with a list of its members) and these led me to the page linked below of the Center for Media and Democracy that has the investigative journal PR Watch and produces "Spin of the Day" which reports on spin and propaganda in the news and SourceWatch, a wiki-based investigative journalism resource.

Well, this really peaked my interest especially the mention of Hill & Knowlton, and the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform and Social Security privatization (U.S. Social Security privatization is at the top of the conservative agenda).

Source Watch's Media Alert for 16 Feb 2005 took me to the CNW link. (Is there a Canadian equivalent of the Center for Media Democracy?)

Something's fishy here, methinks. What think you?

Vere Scott