“Shock and horrors” to come in BC?
Ian | 3 December, 2009 | 11:07The [BC] government has warned that a prolonged HST protest could result in — shock and horrors — an NDP government.
Restaurants are pissed.
Restaurants like “McDonald’s, Tim Hortons, White Spot, {and] Cactus Club.”
They claim that the HST will cost their businesses $750 million and 10,000 ($8 minimum wage, the lowest in Canada) jobs.
Remind me why this is “good policy?”
Remember that it’s costing the federal government almost $6 billion that the Liberal and Tory dissenters are passing onto the shoulders of the provincial governments. Even the Bloc is going to push this on provinces where it has no sitting members (they should really abstain from this debate).
Finally, remember that this new tax raises no additional funds, as both provinces are implementing it as a “revenue neutral” tax. This means they drop corporate taxes and raise taxes to consumers.
Let the shock and horrors begin.
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Of course the Bloc is going to vote for HST. The Federal Government is putting legislation in place allowing the implementation of a new sales tax that the governments of those provinces want to implement in their province. Even if the concept of HST is not something Block members believe in, their party is based on the idea that provincial governments should be free to act in whatever way they see fit within their areas of jurisdiction. From their perspective, if that’s what Ontario and BC want to do, they should be allowed to do it.
I can see that side, too bad “what the provinces want” means “what the provincial governments want” and not “what the people want.” I also think there needs to be more emphasis on the $6B that this is costing Ottawa. That’s not pennies.