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   chuckcar to Canuck57@nospam.com   
   Re: HST will lose BC / Ontario shoppers    
   13 Jun 10 19:43:41   
   
   From: chuck@nil.car   
      
   Canuck57  wrote in   
   news:DS7Rn.97435$304.81494@newsfe12.iad:   
      
   > On 13/06/2010 7:19 AM, chuckcar wrote:   
   >>   wrote in news:w2dQn.96815$304.23975@newsfe12.iad:   
   >>   
   >>> Asinine Gordon Campbell government just lost millions of dollars to   
   >>> the United States. The U.S. has added an incentive to counter the   
   >>> hated coming HST in BC - no U.S. tax on goods bought in Washington by   
   >>> British Columbians.   
   >>>   
   >>> You asked for it, Campbell.  Now you've got major competition from the   
   >>> U.S. and those businesses and corporate types who backed your Hated   
   >>> Sales Tax are going to be reeling.   
   >>>   
   >>> Anyone else looking forward to the Recall of Liberal MLAs in November?   
   >>> _______________________________________   
   >>   
   >> LOL. It's a tax enacted by the Federal *conservatives* idiot.   
   >   
   > At the request of greedy provincial Liberals.   
      
   Bullshit. The BC government was one of at least two provincial governments   
   fighting it.   
      
   > Since other Liberal   
   > provinces did it, well, precident has been set.   
   >   
   There's no requirement for "precedent". It's a federal tax. they *have* to   
   do it period.   
      
   > But will admit, BC is now temporarily off our vacation list as I hope   
   > the people come to their senses with this tax-the-crap out of people   
   > disease.  Too expensive, high gas prices, GST-PST->HST just means more   
   > screwing.  Unemployed local trouble makers means the place has lost its   
   > charm.   
   >   
   You don't want taxation don't move to the US - unless you make over   
   100K/ammum that is.   
      
      
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