You get participation points anyways.
Liberals said HST was bad for BC. Then Ottawa dangled a $1.6 billion carrot in front of their face and they took it for the short term gain that would erase their fiscal mistakes. What changed?
Meanwhile they keep trying to drive the supply side by lowering taxes for business, and that doesn't work. It's been proven not to work - just look south of the border, or in our own province.
We have resources and services industry. The HST is bad for the service industry, and the resource industry isn't affected enough to matter.
The HST is a tax shift. The liberals spent 100 times more money on promoting the yes vote than the no side of the equation, and it still lost. Perhaps the majority of those voting don't get it, or perhaps they actually do get it.
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