lubpop

We are facing the same HST increase in BC. People who earn less $20000 seem to get some extra benefits from the government. The people who earn $20000 to $50000 have very few benefits. They are the ones who pay most of the taxes that the government collects. They are the ones who will be hurt the most by this regressive tax and they are the ones who least afford this added tax. We need taxes to pay for our health, education, roads etc, but lets be fair. Spending billions on Olympics in BC and billion for security of the G8 and G20 is totally misdirected spending. HST is just another way of getting extra taxes to pay for this. Cuts in services would be unnecessary if these outlandish spending were not made.

In British Columbia, our government says we have only one choice where major part of our taxes (cuts in other areas) go to pay for the "Olympic Legacy".

The Federal government is closeted supporters of this type of attacks on the women's rights, same sex marriages, lesbians, homosextials, the poor etc. The religious right is infiltrating all of the world governments, either directly or indirectly as supporters. Big concern.

This is the result of insidious religious right which is infiltrating the governments at all levels.