Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Dalton Reversing The Tax?
I must say that I was surprised to see Dalton McGuinty repeal his new eco tax after consumer outrage began to reach a fever pitch. Of all the dozens of new taxes and existing tax increases that the McGuinty administration has burdened Ontario tax payers with since their first election, how did this one get repealed so quickly? I am at a loss to explain why this tax elicited a quick reversal, where other unpopular taxes have endured. Is Dalton becoming paranoid? Since when has the unpopularity of a tax swayed his position, much less on an issue as righteous as the environment. I'm still waiting for his carbon tax.
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Dalton did not repeal anything.
ReplyDeleteHe is halting the ecofee at the register but funding the program through tax payers money, to the tune of $5mil. for the next 90 days until he finds another way to implement it.
You can be sure Stewardship Ontario will just stop showing the fee at the register.
He simply stopped it for 90 days apparently to review it, then I imagine it will be hidden in the item's cost so nobody will notice...good way to take it off the hot topics during the summer...
ReplyDeleteThey are going back to the drawing board, the taxpayer is on the hook for the $ 4-5 million in eco fees the retailers can't program in the cash registers.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry be happy, it will be back but hidden and the retailer will be passing it on hidden.
I could be wrong, but a familiar pattern already exists in Ontario.
it'll be back and BIGGER THAN EVER!!!! (yes i'm yelling)
ReplyDeletebrad
Have you ever seen the credit card commercial where the guy has his hand in your pocket (taking your money) and a background singer is singing 'I've got my hand in your pocket'?
ReplyDeleteWhat really should have been made was a commercial featuring Pinocchio singing 'I've got my hand in your pocket' and stating this is the Liberal way.
Higher taxes, higher fees, higher hydro rates, higher cost of living, higher unemployment. I have got my hand in your pocket.
Less food on the table, less investments in Ontario, less manufacturing jobs and job growth in Ontario, and less opportunity for Ontarians to have a higher quality of life and less money in their pocket.
The Liberal way is new taxes being invented and new fees being invented. Yes, the Liberal way will take good care of you - as we are now new and improved, we will have both our hands in your pocket. I would like you to go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCLHMr-JZJI to hear Premier McGuinty say he will not raise taxes...and this time he means it.
Dalton McGuinty can't be trusted on taxes.