Andrew Nikiforuk Quotes
When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.
Nikiforuk, Andrew. Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent. Greystone Books, 2008.
If a state has substantial natural resources, the rulers and their close supporters can generate enough revenue for themselves without worrying about the industrialization of the nation, education, economic development which requires the health and education of the population. As a result, while “rentier” states seem rich, they very rarely improve the quality of life of most of their citizens.
Opposing the ratification of the United States Constitution: Left before it ended.
This was in effect a “Real Estate Promotional Document. Democracy, self government, and the right to set their own taxes were major selling points. See {611572} and {611571} for other “features.”
The arbitrary tax that Britain had imposed in tea in America was protested, not only in Boston. This meeting and its report was held the day before the Boston Tea Party. There was concern and distress in many parts of the colonies.
Originally it was published in Boston under the name “A Columbian Patriot.” Today the average number of constituents of a member of the House is several times that which she and others thought already way to large.
The American Revolution’s ideas spread. This Cahier was the consensus of the Clergy of Blois in 1789. There were cahiers of several provinces of France—some by the clergy, some by the nobles. What is fascinating is the emergence of many of the pre-Revolutionary French concepts. The example of the American revolution and its principles was known throughout the educated classes of France.
Andrew Nikiforuk, born in 1955, is a Canadian journalist who has won multiple National Magazine Awards. His work has appeared in Saturday Night, Maclean's, Canadian Business, Report on Business, Chatelaine, Alberta Views, Equinox, Alternatives Journal and Canadian Family, and in both national newspapers. In 1990 the Toronto Star newspaper awarded him an Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy to study AIDS and the failure of public health policy. His books include Pandemonium; Fourth Horseman; Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Oil, which won the Governor General's Award in 2002; and Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for 2008-09 from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
