XPost: bc.politics, vic.general, van.general   
   From: NøCøns@our.House   
      
   Published: June 16, 2011   
      
   To the Editor,   
      
   The Fair Tax Alliance promotes keeping the HST.  In my opinion they are using   
   misleading   
   statements when they ask voters “would they prefer to choose the HST at 10 per   
   cent versus the   
   former GST/PST at 12 per cent?”   
      
   Let’s put that in perspective. There is no 10-per cent tax. Therefore the   
   question is misleading   
   and is being used as an inducement to coerce voters into accepting a tax which   
   they have already   
   told their government they do not want.   
      
   Were a business to use this practice it would find itself in a lot of trouble   
   very quickly.   
      
   Former premier Gordon Campbell tried the same tactic when he offered a tax cut   
   days before he   
   resigned, that proposed tax cut was quickly withdrawn, and that action exposed   
   it for what it   
   was, an inducement just like a carrot to a work mule.   
      
   Do the Smart Tax Alliance and the B.C. Liberals really believe that the people   
   of B.C. are so   
   unsophisticated that they do not see the implications of the HST? Do they   
   believe we are so dumb   
   as to believe that loading us up with $2.8 billion of additional tax, a tax   
   that used to be paid   
   by corporations, is a good thing?   
      
   The voters have to decide one simple question: “Do you want to pay $2.8   
   billion a year forever?”   
   or “Would you prefer to pay $1.6 billion one time to get the federal   
   government out of our   
   provincial treasury and corporations out of our pockets?”   
      
   I, for one, don’t need an accountant or professor of economics to answer that   
   one.   
      
   Vote ‘yes’ to extinguish the HST.   
      
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