Only someone with the name Liberal in his nick or who has an obsession with Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
Other oil producing countries sell gas at less than 35 cents a GALLON. Can you ever imagine that happening in Canada?
When people have nothing of interest to add (even for themselves), they start to bash others rather than just sign off for a few hours and find something else to do. There is actually room for some interesting conversation on this issue. My husband is from Alberta so he has relatives in your city. All they ever do is brag about the fact that they do not have PST and yet when they come to visit us, they constantly point out the number of things that cost less here. Hidden tax is what Alberta has on many things. We all have that. People in BC should not be paying a tax on children's clothing (for example) but all stores collect the tax because they don't know how to take it off the bill. By some of the above posts, it would appear Alberta is making it's first attempt at collecting a combined tax and we all know how well that went here.
It's easy really.
You and I both know what it is like to have HST. We voted it out and yet we will still continue to pay it for about another 18 months (or more). The Prov. Lib. leader had to resign because he brought it in. His replacement promised to get rid of it and then tried to back out of her committment. I'm sure that in the next prov. election, we'll back her out - period. Provincially or Federally, the Liberals just don't seem to pass "go" because they continue to collect more and more taxes. The city I live in now has the highest un-employment rate in BC at 14.5%. Hurrah for taxes!!! They were supposed to create more employment and the employment rate here took a steady drop from the introduction of the HST. People are so quick to jump on the band wagon. At the mere mention of an added tax, restaurants immediately upped their prices. Then with the HST added in and the gov't (did one thing right) finally agreed that the minimum wage must be raised slowly up to $10.00 p/h, and they took away the "training wage" of $6.00 p/h which places like restaurants readily took advantage of, restaurants in this city are either empty or near to it.
No - it's really annoying. This thread is not about Trudeau. It's about taxes (especially in Alberta). I hope someone removes your Trudeau pics. because this is not about him.It's easy really.
Neither you, nor EAO, Abtfet, mentallyf!cked or Mhz were responsible.
lease, tell us all about it Gh.
Just like when you hijack threads to tell us we shouldn't be discussing a particular topic, because you're a prude.
It's stupid censorship comments like that, that make people, make you cry.
What would be the point Abtfet? You aren't capable of intelligent discussion these days.
In a province like Alberta, yes. In Ontario, we have idiots that just love the idea.
Yes.
I'm jealous.
I disagree JLM. They have to keep taxing us for a period of time to pay back the Feds. They will find other ways to tax us for now. One of those is that we are now going to pay a tax to rid ourselves of small appliances (toasters, microwaves, irons etc.) like the many other foolish little taxes we pay on almost anything that will hit the trash in 5 - 10 yrs. time. The more they tax us and the more petty taxes they add into that equation, the deeper they dig their own grave. I don't like Christy Clark and worse than that, I don't trust her.
