Lemmy Lemmy:
If you weren't already over taxed, you wouldn't be pissed about this one. I'm also on your side when it comes to lying, sleazy politicians. But you're the one deluding yourself if you won't admit that, ultimately, your beef is with taxes, not this one particular tax. If the HST had been introduced in revenue-neutral manner, you wouldn't give a shit about it.
Wrong. I seriously doubt I'd be happy about any tax that magically reappeared and was implemented right after being buried. Sort of a night of the living dead tax.
Any new tax is one tax to fucking many and just because Ontario doesn't have the mechanism to fight the HST doesn't mean the people of BC should sit back and take it up the wazoo.
But just to be clear, your suggestion of a tax cut combined with the HST wouldn't have made this tax any more palatable to a majority of the province. This fight has gone far beyond the HST, it's about ethics and morals, neither of which our current provincial government has.
As for a revenue neutral HorseShitTax, well, I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn if anyone is interested. It's a spin that Goverments tell the voting public to get them to fall in line. Being the political football that this tax is, even if the tax was revenue neutral, no government would consider it.
By their own admission the BC Liberals have stated that the HST will bring in approxiately $400 Million dollars annualy in new tax revenue.
Revenue neutral my ass.