...I wonder how many people will be refusing, returning, giving to charitable organizations, etc. the bribes being sent to taxpayers?
Dalton McGuinty pigs out on HST: Editorial
No matter how much lipstick Premier Dalton McGuinty puts on his Harmonized Sales Tax pig, it’s still a pig.
Tasha Kheiriddin: Ontario whimpers as B.C. spurns HST
Kira Curtis/Canwest News Service
John Defayette joined a group of canvassers opposing HST in Ontario.
June 10, 2010 – 1:00 pm
On July 1, Ontario residents will begin paying the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). The tax will increase the cost of a host of goods and services, including such diverse items as haircuts, coffee, shoes, funerals, heating bills and real estate commissions. This week the provincial Liberal government admitted that the HST will cost taxpayers far more than the government originally predicted – up to $480 per family a year. And while taxpayers fume, reviews from the business community, whom the HST is purported to help, are mixed.
Yet the Conservative opposition is playing coy. Apart from railing against the cost to taxpayers and complaining that provincial rebate cheques are attempts to bribe the public with their own money, leader Tim Hudak has yet to make any pledge to reverse the HST once it is in place. This leaves frustrated taxpayers with few options to fight back, such as letters to the editor and an online petition (whose traffic seems to have exceeded its bandwidth, giving a sense of how many people are upset about the new tax). Read More
Yet the Conservative opposition is playing coy. Apart from railing against the cost to taxpayers and complaining that provincial rebate cheques are attempts to bribe the public with their own money, leader Tim Hudak has yet to make any pledge to reverse the HST once it is in place. This leaves frustrated taxpayers with few options to fight back, such as letters to the editor and an online petition (whose traffic seems to have exceeded its bandwidth, giving a sense of how many people are upset about the new tax). Read More
Liberals want to tell you something on your HST cheque
Thu Jun 10 2010
The Liberal government says the partisan political message from Premier Dalton McGuinty on HST cheques is 'appropriate.' 
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