Max Fawcett wrote the following in the thought providing article “Tax me, please, before it’s too late”:
“The HST may well be an effort on the part of an unabashedly pro-business government, encouraged by a similarly minded federal government, to shift a portion of the tax burden from producers to consumers. It may be that it unfairly penalizes working people, and unjustifiably rewards those who already have more than enough. That’s still not reason enough to defeat the HST.”
Sure, it is. Though I agree that
“Taxes are almost never discussed in their proper context, as the price we pay as citizens for the services we receive from our governments.”
But I can’t relate to
“…would be hopelessly constrained, trapped by an ever-shrinking stream of revenue and forced to outsource, downsize, and otherwise remove itself from areas of enterprise and activity in which government currently acts.”
I don’t understand why the government has an ever-shrinking stream of revenue. The taxes I pay as a citizen is a percentage of whatever I earn, so my own contribution shouldn’t be shrinking — in fact it’s an ever increasing percentage as I make more money.
I oppose the HST because:
- The timing stinks — recession & sunset of expensive winter olympics.
- Premier Gordon Campbell’s government did not sell this to us in an sincere and holistic manner. This government doesn’t have credibility in any promises they are now making.