XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: pepper@mega.ca   
      
   > pepper@mega.ca wrote:   
   >> Bloody scary, isn't it - that a country which was able to claim   
   >> security financially, the ability to send its kids on to higher   
   >> education without question, and to purchase their own homes, is now   
   >> worried about how they're going to pay the rent, how they're going to   
   >> get enough for clothes or braces for their kids, and where they're   
   >> going to end up living in their old age?   
   >> Elect enough right wing governments that put corporate profits and   
   >> supporting powerful lobby groups above the needs of the average   
   >> Canadian - and you get the disaster that is quickly becoming Canada. We need   
   >> corporate-friendly governments all across Canada to be gone. That means   
   British   
   >> Columbia, Alberta, and many times, Quebec.  And   
   >> no, I didn't forget the most important jurisdiction:  Ottawa.   
      
   "Commentator"  wrote in message   
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   > And if we never elect what you call "corporate-friendly governments", all we   
   are left   
   > with is a further descnt into socialism.  How do you think THAT is going to   
   result in a   
   > lower tax bill?   
      
   Only stupid Americans are afraid of 'socialism' - which they also call   
   'communism' to keep   
   the really dumb scared.   
      
   In Canada, the most left-leaning governments are the ones who have left their   
   working   
   class - the majority of Canadians - with more money in their pockets and tax   
   DECREASES   
   when the coffers were filling too quickly.   
      
   Saskatchewan has killed their HST.   
   ________________________   
      
   Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall hasn't warmed up to the idea.   
   He was a ministerial assistant when former Conservative premier Grant Devine   
   harmonized   
   sales taxes in 1991 in what critics called a $200-million tax grab. Devine was   
   defeated in   
   the next election by the New Democrats, who split the taxes up again.   
      
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   
      
   And the public uproar over harmonization in Nova Scotia contributed to the   
   Liberal   
   government's defeat in 1999.   
      
   "It's a tough political decision because it shifts the burden of taxation from   
   businesses   
   to consumers," said Derek Burleton, an economist and director of economic   
   analysis at TD   
   Bank.   
      
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