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The Green Party of Saskatchewan believes that a vibrant and sustainable economic system requires community-based economics |
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Links to policy resolutions that address this founding principle: 1998.4 1998.5 1998.8 1998.12 1998.13 1999.9 2000.4 2000.10 2000.21 2002.1 2002.2 2002.5 2003.1 2003.2 2003.3 2003.6 2003.8 2003.9 2003.15 2004.7 2005.7 |
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| Local communities need smaller and locally owned businesses to hire local people and support a vibrant local community life. | WE
SAY YES |
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| The Saskatchewan NDP government supports multi-national and large corporate interests rather than encouraging and supporting locally based businesses. | WE
SAY NO |
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| Under NDP government Saskatchewan people have seen a major increase in regressive property and sales taxes, while taxes on large corporations in the mining, oil and forestry sectors have seen a major decrease. | WE
SAY NO |
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| Saskatchewan resources are the common heritage of all Saskatchewan people, and not the means for foreign private interests to grow rich. | WE
SAY YES |
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| Property taxes are a regressive form of taxation which penalize the ordinary Saskatchewan citizen, and should be reduced as a source for education and municipal funding. | WE
SAY YES |
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| Saskatchewan has the possibility of creating its own income tax system with more taxation steps which would make the system more fair for all. | WE
SAY YES |
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| Elimination of business taxes and the creation of a progressive system of revenue taxation would support local small and medium business and stop the rip-off benefits now enjoyed by many large foreign-owned corporations. | WE
SAY YES |
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| Saskatchewan tax dollars are subsidizing large corporate agri-business and corporate food factories, providing them with unfair commercial advantages, while forcing smaller family-owned farms into bankruptcy. | WE
SAY NO |
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| If sales tax revenue generated in a community was returned to the source community to support local community development initiatives, Saskatchewan residents would have a strong reason for supporting their home town businesses. | WE
SAY YES |
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| Support for local power generation and smaller community-based ethanol plants would employ people in small-town and rural Saskatchewan. | WE
SAY YES |
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