Local reaction to Ontario's proposed HST

Business and social groups react to the Ontario government's plan to harmonize the PST and GST into one tax.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Woodstock
• Ontario
• Sentinel-Review

[fatmoleman]

Bust out the bicycle just in time for another tax grab on gasoline and whatever else they think is necessary. Conservatives and Liberals = Democrats and Republicans from the U.S. and we all know how good of a job the politicans in the U.S. do. Never again to these useless parties. Our moronic politicans are ruining our once great country! Maybe it is time for a tax revolt? I know i'm sick and tired of being taxed to death.

[davethebear69]

@sweiland75 remember how bad Bob Ray was.He was NDP and almost as bad as Dalton.Bring back Mike Harris!!!!!!!!!

[novaheart7]

IF YOU WANT MORE OF THE SAME THEN KEEP VOTING FOR THE MCGUINTY LIBERALS....

[oveid]

You carbon lifeforms better get used to your carbon taxes and all you good goyim keep paying your kosher taxes. In Canada our masters from a race chosen by god himself to decide for us, have blessed us with a new harmony tax. May Christ forgive what the leftover christians do to the human parasites when they awaken from their state.

[kolar]

Don't vote Liberal or Conservative in the fall, support the NDP or a smaller party. Whatever the two parties say they BOTH SUPPORT THE HST. The Conservatives will not go on record saying they will reverse it but Hudak has "attacked" the HST for purely political reasons. The Liberals of course won't change anything.

[sweiland75]

@davethebear69 LOL no

[sweiland75]

Does the HST replacing the GST affect the price of groceries?

[sweiland75]

@CanadaDan7 That is one major reason why I always vote NDP. It seems that many Canadians forget that Canada is more than a two-party country.

[CanadaDan7]

@orangedac Its deeper than just a carbon tax, I won't go into it, but the idea would be to alter the economy in such a way that properly managing your pressure on the environment, you actually profit. The carbon tax idea is simply so that a more sustainable company can sell their leftover carbon credits to a lesser one. Oil would be a slow phase out in favour of better/modern technologies. The Green party isn't set out to destroy the country financially, quite the opposite. Not familiar w/ Ron P

[orangedac]

@CanadaDan7

Problem with green is that they favor a carbon tax and want Canada to adhere to a set of environmental standards that will surely wreck manufacturing. Canada's major export is oil so how does a party that wants to shut down fossil fuels square with the economic well being. I have not paid much attention to their platform but maybe I should before commenting.

Sadly I don't see the equivalent of a Ron Paul type of party or even a Libertarian party.