Bare Bones

Well here we are, Christmas eve, for me it is, before I get started I`d like to say ........It`s not easy, the stories along with opinionated editorial narration, I have really tried to stay tame as of late, in the past I probably would have flung expletives every which way, half full glasses and mild criticism are difficult for me, life isn`t that way and the human factor trumps all.....Adrian Dix went too far with his lauding comments on the Gordon Campbell patronage appointment, a simple All the best and no more would have sufficed, however, time to move on...

Thousands of HST ballots are going to show up on BCers doorsteps tomorrow, the buck stops here, .....

Let`s be pragmatic, lets examine what we know so far, the BC Liberals lied before the last election, they lied about the debt, they campaigned on a "$495 million dollar deficit max" ....It was a lie....The debt was about $4billion dollars, .....The BC Liberals in writing told several large groups IN WRITING  that "The HST isn`t on our radar" and then this

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During the campaign, the Liberal Party was asked in a questionnaire from the association: "Will your party oppose harmonizing GST with PST in British Columbia?"
In its official response, the party said, "a harmonized GST is not something that is contemplated in the B.C. Liberal platform, but we are committed to improving the tax system."
But according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, high-ranking bureaucrats in B.C. and Ottawa were discussing the HST before the last election and had prepared briefing notes on the tax for the finance minister....more here
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And what did former finance minister Carole Taylor have to say about the HST..

The NDP has taunted the B.C. Liberals over the upcoming harmonized sales tax by highlighting comments made by former B.C. finance minister Carole Taylor on CTV.
NDP energy critic John Horgan raised the issue yesterday (April 26) during the legislature's question period.
“Let’s move to another powerful person, the former minister of finance, who said not only did the government mislead the public during the election, she said the following: 'This particular tax takes the tax off businesses. It takes $1.8 billion off of businesses and puts it onto consumers. So that shift is a shift that is ideological as well as factual'," Horgan said, quoting Taylor...Read here

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Isn`t that great, the BC Liberals lied about the deficit, lied about the HST, lied about planning the HST, ...The so-called Calgary economist Jack Mintz wrote in CD Howe in 2007 that the HST would cause job losses and lower wages for a decade, and raise the price of consumer goods,....Right after the 2009 election that sleazeball Campbell along with his henchman Colin Hansen announced the HST, a revenue neutral tax shift, remember that lie,

And these HST lies haven`t stopped, we were told going into that same election that we had the best jurisdiction and the lowest corporate tax levels in the G8, ....Then they dragged in Jack flip flop Mintz again, for a whole $12 thousands dollars Jack mintz claimed the HST would result in 131,000 additional new jobs by 2020...$11 billion in new investment.....Mintz`s 12 page skinny report with big letters, no tables, no data, a speculative crystal ball, well his $12 k report was quickly debunked, ......Then we were told all this tax upon tax would stop and consumer prices would go down, ...Fuel is up, didn`t oil just drop $10 dollars a barrel?..What about gold, lumber, what about food prices, cable, phone, has anything dropped in price, ....How come when we have had an at par Canadian dollar with the US greenback for over a year and still prices are way lower across the line, how come, ......There is no HST across the line and our prices are still higher, .....And the $1.6 billion dollar bribe Gordon Campbell took for selling us out to the feds didn`t stop him from raiding ICBC for nearly $1billion dollars this year did it!

So then the Government forms a new panel to report on the HST, the Dinning group, these people report that the HST is not revenue neutral but a $850 million dollar tax grab, .....And Falcon and the Liberal ministry of finance have yet to table any real budget numbers but concede to the Dinning report, so now they are admitting that the HST is a huge tax grab for the Government, another lie admitted to.....The Dinning report also claimed that families are out about $350 dollars a year on "Regular purchases" ....That means no big ticket items like roof repairs and used cars and more, the Dinning group to arrive at that number have also claimed that businesses have already passed on 90% of their savings, .....That too must be a lie, what prices have fallen, the miners, lumber, gas, all our export industries sell at world prices and any savings passed on would have to be lower prices for foreign corporations..That is...If you think they lowered prices, for as you know commodities sell at set prices that rise and fall, for example, .....Falcon and the Smart tax alliance have been claiming that our export industries and movie business need the HST to be competitive, ...Well, lets debunk that myth....Lumber in 2005 was selling for over $800 dollars a 1000 board feet...Today the price is about $350 dollars a 100 board feet......A 300% swing in price, what can the HST mean in that type of a market...look at gold prices, look at natural gas, 5 years ago it was over $11 dollars now it`s barely $4 dollars....Again nearly a 300% swing, ....Meanwhile copper and gold, and all the metals are high.....And remember this.....The movie industry competed in BC when the Canadian dollar was a mere 67 cents to the American buck, BC in 2009 matched Ontario`s aggressive movie tax credits....The tax credits and the rise and fall of the Canadian loonie is far more troublesome then having NO HST.....Back on the Dinning report, David Schreck not only completely shreds the Dinning findings but lays out by ...


By going back to our old PST/GST would not only save consumers $billions of dollars every year but balance the budget 2 years earlier

So what have we got, the liberals lied about the debt, lied about the HST, lied about being revenue neutral, lied about prices falling, what about the jobs, that too...BC has lost roughly 30,000 thousand full times jobs since the HST came in last year, exactly what Flip Flop Jack Mintz initially forecast, you can read more here.....

So now the Dinning report claims the Government was wrong about revenue neutral, and wrong about jobs, they laugh at Jack Mintz and now claim that the HST might create 23 thousand jobs by 2020....A number so small it would be hard to prove either way....

So whatta we got, we got lying Liberals, lied about debt, deficits, lied about the HST, lied pre-election, lied about job forecasts, lied about revenue neutral, and now the Liberals are lying in their ads, well damn close anyway, we have had a bombardment of push polling outfits calling BCers and telling them the HST has been lowered to 10%...We have the Smart Tax Alliance using the same deceptive past tense ads, claiming a 10% HST tax, claiming families will save $120 dollars per year.....When that is false, the HST is 12% today, not !0%, not 11%, ...It`s 12% period....Families are spending $1000s for years.....When the truth is Christy Clark has flip flopped like charlie the tuna, Clark said she wouldn`t try and bribe the voter by promising to lower the HST, or sending cheques, or launching a massive campaign, ...All broken promises, and what`s even funnier, ...Christy Clark`s so called fix, ...She has done nothing but follow the original deal, for the HST deal Campbell and Hansen inked with Ottawa allowed for a 1% percentage drop on July 1st 2012 and a further drop of a point to 10% in 2014 if Ottawa agrees......In other words, Christy Clark`s HST fix is nothing, she`s selling the same deal.......And who can believe long term tax promises when short term tax promises can be taken away in a blink!,,,,,Gordon Campbell went on TV and announced a tax cut, 2 weeks later it was gone, as for Christy Clark`s 10% percent HST promise for 2014....It`s worth nothing, in fact it has got the BC Government in hot water in the bond market....Even Keith Baldrey calls Christy Clark`s 10% HST "NOT DOABLE".....

Kevin Falcon had to go to New York to calm the money lenders, there are problems, you can`t blow off the money lenders, so the question is this, the money lenders also see that BC under a 10% HST is in structural deficit, so how did Falcon get out of that, did he confide in private that there never will be a 10% HST...For if not, he would have to explain how BC is going to pay its debts, oh to be a fly on the wall in that meeting!.....

So here we are, Gordon Campbell has received his gift from Stephen Harper for the HST sell out, Christy Clark has already lied and flipped and flopped, we have been insulted with phony ads that never mention July 1st/2014, or July 1st/2012 for that matter, .....I have written dozens of stories on the HST......Here is what we know, the Government had a year to sell the HST before it even came into affect, their story has changed a dozen times, the entire finance ministry have different numbers than that a 4 person appointed panel, doesn`t that give you pause, who`s right, the Dinning group or the BC ministry of Finance, we were lied to about debt, deficits, about job numbers, we have lost nearly 30,000 full time jobs since the HST arrived, prices are up on everything, I don`t need any anecdotal evidence, my wallet goes bare faster than before.....

Lastly, we lose our sovereignty to Ottawa with the HST, they would call all the shots, any 10% HST is gone with a simple cabinet in order document, the same one they are advertising as a new Federal law now, it`s a cabinet in order scribble!....

This is our last chance to stand up for Democracy, if we as a people concede to a corrupt group of liars and legitimize them by accepting this tax we will only have ourselves to blame, we have a chance to make Canadian history, world history, we can say to the corporate elites of the world...

We are British Columbia, home of Democracy, hard workers clean air, the Orca, wild salmon runs, lush forests, a diverse group of European, Indian, Asian and First Nations peoples, as Blondie would say, We Are Canadian, we are civilized, peaceful,  our Province is a precious jewel and vital to life on earth......And that will cost you a little more to do business here!

Vote YES  to Kill the Hst....


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