Conservatives propose 9% hike to GST

[Curious Cdn]

You kids are rotten at math.

A 9% increase on 5% is 0.0045%.

And even worse at English. "A" Conservative is singular not plural.

Think of it as a "Creative Arts" project.

 

[taxslave]

Don't kid yourself, Cannuck. Red Tories still pop up in the left fringes of the Conservative Party even today I'm sure. No need to swing all the way to the NDP to find them.

Heck, I voted for an NDP candidate last election (in spite of her party affiliation mind you) and I would like to see general business taxes scrapped. Meanwhile, I'm sure more than a few Conservative-Party voters support business taxes across the board.

I wouldn't even be surprised to find the odd social-corportist in the right-fringes of the NDP supporting scrapping business taxes.

You're simplifying things.

Simple mind. He has no choice.

 

[petros]

Think of it as a "Creative Arts" project.

It's obviously underfunded.

 

[Curious Cdn]

It's obviously underfunded.

So it should be.

 

[taxslave]

It's a tax on their employees who will probably earn less if their employers pay more. If the business is an exporter, It is a discouraging tax on our badly needed exports.

Most exports are exempt.

 

[Machjo]

Simple mind. He has no choice.

Some like to stereotype. All conservatives are like this. All socialists are like that. Then when they meet the odd liberal conservative among the fringes of the Conservative Party who shares some ideas in common with socialists or the odd social corporatist among the fringes of the NDP who shares some ideas in common with conservatives, he gets all confused.

 

[Cannuck]

I apologize if I offended you. How would eating a hamburger have corrected it?

Stupid statements don't offend me

 

[Curious Cdn]

Most exports are exempt.

If the business pays a business tax, whatever it produces for export has been taxed at that point.

 

[taxslave]

Some like to stereotype. All conservatives are like this. All socialists are like that. Then when they meet the odd liberal conservative among the fringes of the Conservative Party who shares some ideas in common with socialists or the odd social corporatist among the fringes of the NDP who shares some ideas in common with conservatives, he gets all confused.

I share some ideas with all of them. Even the greens. Doesn't mean I would vote for them.

 

[Machjo]

Stupid statements don't offend me

You didn't answer the hamburger question though.

 

[taxslave]

If the business pays a business tax, whatever it produces for export has been taxed at that point.

We were talking about the GST not income tax. Don't confuse the two.

 

[Curious Cdn]

We were talking about the GST not income tax. Don't confuse the two.

GST is a consumption tax, not a business tax. It is flat and democratic.

 

[petros]

Everybody including Evil Corp pays GST.

 

[Scooby]

...and he's outta the race

 

[Ron in Regina]

You kids are rotten at math.

A 9% increase on 5% is 0.0045%.

And even worse at English. "A" Conservative is singular not plural.

Thank You! You beat me to this, & this is a country that has
done away with the penny, let alone 1/2 pennies. So on a $10
purchase, the $0.50 GST will become $0.545 so that will round
up to a nickel more.

Am I understanding this correctly? On a $1000 purchase, we'd
be looking at an increase of $4.50 paid in GST?

 

[darkbeaver]

Trumpest Leftards.


Conservative leadership candidate Rick Peterson is proposing to reverse one of the party's central policies from the last decade and raise the GST.

Peterson, who filed his papers and joined the federal Conservative leadership race in time for the party's second debate in December, released more of his policy ideas earlier this week.

The Vancouver venture capitalist previously said he'd cut corporate income taxes to zero to promote economic growth and create jobs.

But his expanded economic plan, released Tuesday, goes against a promise that helped the Conservatives win power in 2006 under former leader Stephen Harper.

Peterson says he would reverse the two per cent cut Harper made to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) — and raise it even further, from its current five per cent to nine per cent.

Some economists questioned the wisdom of Harper's move to cut the tax at the time, calling the move regressive and pointing out that it added billions to Canada's deficit.

But it was politically popular for the Conservatives and an accomplishment they campaigned on for years.

Similar consumption taxes in other OECD countries with which Canada competes average about 19 per cent, Peterson's release noted.

Peterson said the revenue raised would be used to balance the budget within two years and pursue the "largest-ever" infrastructure building program in Canada's North.

Peterson, who demonstrated his bilingualism during the party's leadership debate last month in Moncton, will have the chance to elaborate on his ideas at next Tuesday's all-French debate in Quebec City.

Conservative leadership candidate Rick Peterson proposes hiking GST to 9% - Politics - CBC News

'Balance the budget" submit, a real country would just wring thier necks and take the gold.

We should all train for winter combat. Like Much of southern Eropeans are doing today. They don'[t even have shovels, imagine paying for two weeks of Metterainian nice withice and snow christ they must be pissed.

What fukkin additional goods and services will they tax when there are none. LKunatics politicians should be left out in the cold anytime after four PM in Alberta.The dark will take them.

Some of this hysteria could be due to unrealistic economic expectations during global systemic cillapse.

 

[petros]

thank you! You beat me to this, & this is a country that has
done away with the penny, let alone 1/2 pennies. So on a $10
purchase, the $0.50 gst will become $0.545 so that will round
up to a nickel more.

Am i understanding this correctly? On a $1000 purchase, we'd
be looking at an increase of $4.50 paid in gst?

$0.45

 

[Curious Cdn]

I'd prefer the Tic Tax that the mint is proposing.

 

[coldstream]

These are NOT Conservatives. They are lousy NEOconservatives.. purveyors of trickledown Reaganomics, Free Trade, global laissez faire capitalism, REGRESSIVE flat taxation, privatization, deregulation.

This is the stinking offal of Classic British Economic LIBERALISM which has destroyed the Western Economies under every President since Lyndon Johnson, and every Canadian Prime Minister since Pierre Trudeau, including his son.

 

[Curious Cdn]

These are NOT Conservatives. They are lousy NEOconservatives.. purveyors of trickledown Reaganomics, Free Trade, global laissez faire capitalism, REGRESSIVE flat taxation, privatization, deregulation.

This is the stinking offal of Classic British Economic LIBERALISM which has destroyed the Western Economies under every President since Lyndon Johnson, and every Canadian Prime Minister since Pierre Trudeau, including his son.

Right on!