Today a government issued study about the impact of the HST revealed that it would cost the average middle-class family over $480 a year in extra tax. It’s clear now the Liberals have led middle-class families down a breadcrumb path of half-truths and distortions. When it comes to the true impact of the HST . Now middle-class families will have to tighten their belts even more . When at the same time the limousine Liberals at Queens Park create $1 billion boondoggles one after the other. Interestingly the same day that true impact of the HST was announced the government also let people know that the cheques were in the mail. Are the Liberals giving a little sugar to Ontarians so the medicine of the HST tax can go down ?
Author: Jon Siemko
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The HST Tax Syndrome
As the witching hour draws near to where the Ontario taxpayer has to shoulder another gouging tax increase brought to you by McGuinty’s Liberals. Increase taxes also increase the likelihood of many Ontarians turning to an emerging black market to satisfy the need for many common service industries like contractors . This quandary creates an environment where you have people actively trying to avoid paying taxes therefore, making the HST less effective not more. If the government treats people no better than medieval serfs this will eventually create a society that is more equal but less free. An increase in taxes has never been a popular policy. In fact significant societal and political shifts have been ushered in by a population that felt unjustly taxed and it can happen again.
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What is the Price of Free Speech?
There is a definite difference between the way Liberals and Conservatives approach the fundamental value of free speech. For Liberals it is something to be closely monitored and controlled. It seems there is more of an adversarial tone when liberals do not have the mechanisms of government to control speech.
Time’s Joe Klein has accused several critics of Obama—including Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Fox News in general—not just of “hate speech” but of the more legally serious “borderline sedition.” After Coburn warned that some citizens might be saying, “ ‘I give up on my government,’ and rightly so,” Klein charged that the senator’s statement “comes dangerously close to incitement to violence.” Needless to say, Klein wasn’t talking about criminalizing dissent back in the Bush-Cheney years.
