The HST – A Hideous Sales Tax Awaits
Get ready for the sledgehammer called HST.
Gordon Campbell’s HST, which blends the federal GST with the provincial sales tax (and applies it to pretty much all goods and services) needs to be stopped.
It’s going to all but kill the housing market, force a sales declines onto already struggling retail and service businesses, and raise the cost of living from ridiculously high to prohibitively high.
And once Campbell figures out that the provinces revenues are in steep decline, you know he’ll do what any good Liberal would do… raise taxes again.
The real reason Campbell has decided to hammer us is the $1.5 Billion bonus (bribe) her gets from the Federal Government for doing so. This bonus allows him to hide a deficit, that at election time, he conveniently forgot to tell us about.
The Hideous Sales Tax expands taxes to everything we pay the Godawful Sales Tax on now.
The way they are trying to sell it to us, is telling us that merchants will pass along savings… which is compete Bullsh*t. Notice how prices of gas and merchandise has dropped now the Canadian dollar is equal to US? We pay the equivalent of $4.50 for a US gallon – almost double what they do just across the border.
They advertise that home buyers purchasing homes under $400,000 will pay approximately the same as the current system… the bad news is that you can’t actually buy a house for $400,000 in the Vancouver area, or in any BC city a person could actually make a living in.
Imagine – a tax of only an average year’s salary for the privileged of buying a home!???
So Gordie, if you are determined to take the next step in the tax-rape of BC taxpayers, here’s an idea to make it more like a molesting:
Drop provincial sales tax to 5% and make HST 10%… it may stand a chance.
Or, better yet, kill provincial income tax and up it to 15% overall – you’d have a much better chance of acceptance, and maybe a small hope of stopping the recall movement, and staying in power.
I know.. the chances of a tax ever going down in BC are about as likely as me buying a Smart Car.
Oh, and by the way Gordie – now you’ve awoken the political dead…. He’s Back!!!
photo credit: Rich Anderson
May 1st, 2010 at 1:10 pm
The BC budget, looks like a lunatic wrote it up, combine the insane HST, there will be disaster, for the poor and the aged. Where the HST doesn’t get you the budget does. There are some BC citizens, making pacts, not to buy any goods, where the HST is applied. Communities are setting up co-ops and barter systems. Communities must prepare themselves to feed everyone, in a 100 mile radius. The aged and the poor, do not have enough money for food, utilities and rent. They are being evicted, and, having their utilities shut off. By fall, we will be able to feed everyone. I am having a root cellar, where I can keep vegetables over the winter. As a senior, I won’t use all my garden, so I will supply kitchens, that feed the poor, with vegetables. People are buying extra chicks, for meat and eggs, for the kitchens. This province has regressed back, to where, we are planting Victory gardens, as we did during WW11, to make sure our soldiers, would have enough food. Now we must feed the poor.
September 6th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
We are going through the same thing here in Ontario, when the HST started the economy just took a tailspin, I have never seen such a drop before, I suspect more and more people have gone to the “underground” as a means of “survival”. everybody here is working for “Cash” .. .
Jean Cretien once said they should do away with “Income taxes” and just charge “consumption, hst,gst) for revenue stream, might be a better system, right now we are getting hit both ends. I dont understand how people are surviving . The HST revolt is ok, but the Liberals are just ignoring it.
Ted
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May 22nd, 2012 at 9:53 am
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