Day 6: A Slight Cheat + HST
So why has it taken this long for me to post YESTERDAY’s healthy eating challenge? Well simply because the only thing I had was Orange juice and some yogurt. Well, that’s a partial truth. After I live tweeted that Toronto condo fire I went to make dinner, but instead played basketball… and then just went and grabbed some leftovers from my grandma’s house. That’s my slight cheat. She had homemade lasagna and I only had one piece. SO, in reality I stuck to the diet… just not really haha.
Anyway, I’ve been reading lots about the HST and started asking people this morning if they understood how bad the HST actually is. Few people know what it is at all! So here’s my ‘simple’ explanation of the whole debacle.
Right now we have two taxes… PST(provincial 8%) and GST(Canada wide 5%). Now what you may NOT know is that we don’t pay both on all items.
What the HST will do is COMBINE both, so you have to pay an additional 8% on MANY items. Basically it’s a way to extract more money from you and I without calling it a new tax… it’s just ‘harmonizing’… and everyone loves harmony!
Here’s some things to that will change.. Haircuts, dry cleaning, membership fees to gyms or golf courses, taxis, internet!, postage, shipping, accounting, legal services, home renovations and many more will be increased by the 8%!
For me personally, this is how I look at it…
$20 haircut, $20 memberships, $15 taxis, $30 dry cleaning, $50 internet and $5 postage/shipping.
What I currently pay $140 for, will cost me as of July on, $152! That’s no small increase in my opinion.
You’re free to make your own decision on the topic, but me personally, I’m done with provincial Liberals. I voted for you and you’ve bent me over and forced your lies into my ass for the last time. Fuck you Dalton McGuinty. Fuck you.
