Foro those of you who aren’t aware, Canada’s Liberal party is seekign to impose a Harmonized Sales Tax on ALL goods, of 12%, as opposed to the PST and GST we pay on select goods now.
The Liberals (Canada’s centre) suggest it will balance itself out as it will reduce processing costs for companies who will in turm be ale to lower prices a few points. The NDP (Canada’s democrats)have started an online petition to oppose teh new tax, which will be tabled on in Burnaby BC next week.
I know there are a few Canadians here and this has raised some strong concerns from people, I’d also like to get some comparative political history from JamesRL if you are around.
I’ve never trusted the NDP, especially in BC, but I really don’t support HST being applicable across the board, restaurants etc. where we’ve never paid both taxes.
I actually ignored this issue for a while but I just received an email from a friend, like a chain letter, looking for HST support. I don’t agree to NDP actions though I do oppose HST for teh most part even though I understand the concept I don’t see it balancing out as they suggest, so I will pass but I am interested in mor eof an Eastern Canadian view, and of course if there are actually ANY Americans who follow Canadian politics (for what reason I don’ know)chime in.
So that’s our huge political issue right now,it even made the news this time!! LOL, whether to combine our current taxes and apply them to a broader scale or not. 😀