- Why doesn’t Harper show some class, stand up and admit he was wrong
Small business fears impact of HST, Sep 25, 2009 04:30 AM, Chantal Hébert
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/700811
In fact, Harper is, in reality, paying off the Ontario and BC governments in order to implement this HST = “Harper Sales Tax”, the Ontario government is getting a rebate of approx $4.3 billion from Harper and BC is getting $1.6 billion just to implement it.
The recently released Toronto-Dominion Bank Report, indicates that the HST will represent an effective tax hike of 1.5%.
On the one hand Harper and his Con’s have been going around saying how great it was for the economy to reduce the GST by 2 points. In the other, how great it is for the economy to have it effectively increased by 1.5%.
Why doesn’t Harper show some class, stand up and admit he was wrong to reduce the GST by two points and explain that this is needed to recoup the revenues that were lost by so doing.
Ian Brodie, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff, said in Montreal at the annual conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
“Despite economic evidence to the contrary, in my view the GST cut worked … It worked in the sense that it helped us to win.”
How much more of this do we have to suffer before we simply just get rid of Harper and his Cons’
Lloyd MacIlquham cicblog.com/comments.html
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/700811
In fact, Harper is, in reality, paying off the Ontario and BC governments in order to implement this HST = “Harper Sales Tax”, the Ontario government is getting a rebate of approx $4.3 billion from Harper and BC is getting $1.6 billion just to implement it.
The recently released Toronto-Dominion Bank Report, indicates that the HST will represent an effective tax hike of 1.5%.
On the one hand Harper and his Con’s have been going around saying how great it was for the economy to reduce the GST by 2 points. In the other, how great it is for the economy to have it effectively increased by 1.5%.
Why doesn’t Harper show some class, stand up and admit he was wrong to reduce the GST by two points and explain that this is needed to recoup the revenues that were lost by so doing.
Ian Brodie, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff, said in Montreal at the annual conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
“Despite economic evidence to the contrary, in my view the GST cut worked … It worked in the sense that it helped us to win.”
How much more of this do we have to suffer before we simply just get rid of Harper and his Cons’
Lloyd MacIlquham cicblog.com/comments.html
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