HST Virus Introduced to British Columbia’s Economy Already Sick With Olympic Fever and Swine Flu
Premier Gordon Campbell with a bad case of Olympic fever.
A friend of mine recently used her Facebook status to pose the following question: Can some one please explain the harmonized sales tax in layman’s terms? The first comment she attracted was a sincere attempt to explain the details of BC’s newest tax structure without any criticism of the hike. My irritated brain immediately commanded my fingers to type – “Everyone in BC starts to pay 12 percent tax on everything. The government gives themselves raises with the extra money and the rest of it gets mismanaged on things like useless projects that lines the pockets of their friends who own big development companies.” There, I thought to myself after posting my contribution, that should incense a few people, perhaps prompting some serious discussion on the topic and awareness of how little taxpayers know of what is actually going on with their money behind the proverbial closed doors. My self-satisfaction lasted as long as it took for two more comments to appear after my own. The first one read “I like glitter and bunnies.” The second? “I like glitter and bunnies too!”
It amazes me how little people care about politics, but to your average everyday consumer attracted to glitter and bunny rabbits, its about as entertaining as dog food. Nothing captures a consumer’s attention like the fake breasts, fake tans and fake…well, everything that comes along with the TV and movie industries. Many find it extremely difficult to sit through a news program, forced to listen to an aging, balding anchor make bad jokes to ordinary looking journalists who report on mundane topics like taser deaths, natural disasters and the occasional feel-good story about Siamese twins surviving separation. HST? What’s that? Is that the vaccine for the H1N1 virus?
Businesses that have never had to pay or charge the 7% PST will now be obliged to do so, in combination with the 5% GST. In a service-driven province, this could become the financial kiss of death at a time when many are barely floating their boats.
Yet so many in BC are oblivious to the HST virus that has finally spread across this country from coast-to-coast. Why? Because bunny rabbits and glitter are more appealing than elected officials who refuse to disclose details of their personal expenditures, more appealing than the decision to put a $458 million retractable roof on a stadium in one of the rainiest cities in Canada, more appealing than Vancouver’s Olympic Village going $132 million over budget with predictions that this figure will increase, more appealing than the multi-billion dollar Gateway Program that promotes the continued and increasing use of cars as the solution to the Lower Mainland’s traffic congestion while resulting in a tremendous loss of farm land due to road widening, not to mention increased pollution and greenhouse gases due to increased emissions.
As Gordon Campbell and his elected mafia busily prepare for their next big cash grab starting July 2010, unsuspecting British Columbians, distracted by Olympic and Swine Flu fevers, preoccupied with buying their red Olympic mittens while waiting for their turn at the vaccination clinic, are none the wiser.
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November 19th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
An area of our consumer society that seems to have been overlooked in the current outcry against the HST is the insurance industry. Currently, the following services are exempt from PST and GST: interest, insurance premiums and most other financial services.
When we look at the current GST free insurance industry, the question must be asked; how will the HST affect the average Canadian? When looking at the large number of insurance policies carried by the average Canadian (life, disbility, car, fire, home, earthquake to name a few) you can bet your boots insurance is going to cost a lot more when the HST is enacted.
Who is going to carry the extra cost? The consumer of course.
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December 13th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
As a senior living on my own, I have no way to survive the HST, I will lose my house, and many seniors are in the same boat. Low income families, will end up homeless, with the seniors. It is unforgivable, the children, will also have to live on the street, with their parents. Many of us do not even have the basics now. All of this has been caused by corruption, in, our governing bodies and, that has always been so. The only way we low income people have to cut back is food and utilities. In some families, the parents have, only one meal a day, to try to keep their children fed. Well, it has been said, the government is an ass, to even consider imposing an asinine HST. If you can’t get anywhere with the horses ass, you are supposed to go to the horses head, unfortunately the horses head is empty.
February 12th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
we all know it’s illegal, just like all other taxes, so who’s running this dog and pony act? refuse to pay the “horse shit tax”
Backlash grows over new B.C. Liberal tax HST ~ GST PST HST = SHIT
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