Harmonized sales tax not so harmonious.
Oh, you’ll never hear Dalton McGuinty saying that–he’s too busy stressing the economic advantages so far as the creation of new jobs is concerned. Which, okay–we all could use a little good news on the job creation front. But I kind of like the idea of being able to aford rent at the same time. That’s something the opposition parties are saying won’t be quite so likely should the new HST go through. Now, if you’ve been a regular reader in the 3 short weeks since I started randomly spouting off my nonsense, you’ll be well aware that I’m nowhere near being an economist. But I can do basic math. And more jobs plus higher rent plus a higher tax overall equals not a very pretty situation. Or very happy voters. And when your party’s in trouble federally, plus you’re not exactly doing very well provincially in what is probably one of the largest, if not the largest, vote-getting province in the country–we’re not counting Quebec, here–you probably don’t want any of your basic math equasions to add up to not very happy. Of course, I’m not a politician either so maybe there’s some hidden strategy here. Hopefully that works out better than your national counterparts, Dalton. I generally don’t like to have to toss more than one person from the same party into the opinionated deadpool.
