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Originally Posted by 68style
I still have extremely negative feelings about the HST being input the first time around because they used it to up private used car sale tax to 12% and then didn't even take it away after HST got repealed.
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The whole rollout was such a disaster - Campbell said before the election that he'd never do it and then ta-da! here it is! I'd love to read a history of what went on in the backrooms that lead Campbell to roll it out the way he did as I can't imagine he didn't have the HST as a consideration before the election.
He bit it from both ends - the Conservatives led by Bill Van der Zalm were able to talk it up as a tax hike while the NDP jumped on it as VATs are generally regressive taxes (hurts the poor and working class more than the rich).
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Current: 2019 Acura RDX
Gone: 2007 Acura TSX, 2008 Mazda 3 GT, 2003 Mazda Miata LS, 2008 Mazda Miata GT PRHT, 2003 Mazda Protege 5
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