income tax system (Ministry of Finance, 2003).
             The Conservative Ontario government has continued seeking ways to
             reduce taxes, and this comes at a time when reports suggest that Ontario is
             not producing as well as it should and so has a lower tax base than it
             should. Crane (2003) notes that the workers, businesses, governments, and
             other entities in Ontario are less productive than those in the neighboring
             states in the U.S. that otherwise are similar in size and economic
             If Ontario had the same output per capita as the median for the U.S.
             states, GDP per capita would be $4,118 higher -- $41,433 instead of
             $37,315 -- and each family, on average, would have about an additional
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