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   XPost: can.politics   
   From: 40%®Çonned@cda.ca   
      
   Published: July 12, 2011   
      
   HST increases tax burden   
      
   To the Editor,   
      
   Canada’s combined tax burden has become one of the largest in the world   
   because it provides   
   services through manipulation of deficits, deferred payments and service   
   reductions all   
   requiring increasing taxation, which is creating a failing economic structure.   
      
   Set aside all the self-serving rhetoric surrounding the harmonized sales tax   
   and we all   
   intuitively know it will inevitably load an annual $2 billion burden of tax   
   carriage onto our   
   middle class backs in order to provide special interest corporations tax   
   relief and subsidies.   
      
   The tax is a classic case of “corporate welfare” and any economics freshman   
   understands this   
   type of subvention distorts markets and comes with huge economic costs.   
      
   The HST model fit well into a Conservative federal propensity to crony   
   capitalism and a   
   like-minded B.C. Liberal trait of corporate pandering, but it required careful   
   political   
   insertion to make it palatable to the mules that would carry the load.   
   Drunk with power, the Liberals imposed it without any consultation and then   
   were surprised the   
   mules started to buck and heave.   
      
   Denial separated personal knowledge from that of ministerial bureaucrats   
   alleged to have been   
   exploring HST without direction.  Deflection came in the form of capitulatory   
   redirection to the   
   dismal selling of the HST. The mules got madder.   
   Corporations united and told the mules if we carry their load, they will feed   
   us more,   
   ultimately reducing our burden. Some hungry mules became believers.   
      
   Dear mules, if you believe our future economic sufferance will translate into   
   efficient   
   corporations and well-paid jobs, then you really do not understand the   
   economic ramifications of   
   taxation thresholds and corporate reinvestment.   
      
   R H   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)