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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2a6122f8-5d5f-4641-910f-ad747b3e8601/71FC49CD-4312-46BA-8190-8C5C169FF00D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.google.co.in/reader/view/?tab=oy" href="http://www.google.co.in/reader/view/?tab=oy" style="font-size: 11px;">www.google.co.in</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.co.in/reader/view/?tab=oy"><DIV><P>American politicians are talking about higher tax rates, bigger government, and intervention by bureaucrats in markets to pick winners and losers (what I call socialized entrepreneurship).  As the US drifts toward socialism, could we see our neighbors to the north passing by us heading away from such policies?</p> <P>From the <A href="http://www.publicforuminstitute.org/nde/news/nde-news.htm" target="_blank">National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship</A> (emphasis added):</p> <BLOCKQUOTE><A href="http://www.irpp.org/choices/archive/vol14no3.pdf" target="_blank">A new study from Canada's Institute for Research and Public Policy</A> seeks to understand why and to see whether any potential solutions are available. The author, Donald McFetridge, fingers the business sector’s lack of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit as primary cause for Canada's productivity lag. <STRONG><U>While the Canadian government has introduced multiple programs to stimulate innovation, the national innovation culture is still quite weak</U></STRONG>. McFetridge contends that new innovation policies should focus on supporting "market incentives for entrepreneurship" through <U><STRONG>reduced taxes and regulation</STRONG></U>.</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/71FC49CD-4312-46BA-8190-8C5C169FF00D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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