I work at a golf course in Vancouver that is very popular with seniors, which now costs them $2 more per round than just a few days ago. Congrats Gordon Campbell, many pensioners on fixed incomes now have to pay more for their primary means of getting exercise. They added a tax to physical fitness. Nearly every consumer noticed the price increase and complained. Seniors on fixed incomes notice increases in consumption taxes more than regular working people, but seniors also vote in far greater numbers than their younger counterparts. They are not happy. Politicians across the country need to know that this is the most important voting demographic in their electoral careers. Act accordingly.
I fully supported the Conservative initiative to lower the GST, just as I am against adding provincial taxes to a Christmas basket of new goods and services. Like many Canadians, I enjoy spending money and I do not like when purchases cost more and I have less money in my wallet because of it. The inventor of modern economics Adam Smith once wrote: "consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production".
as an old guy i would like to kick every canadian in the arse who votes for the assholes who keep spending like fools and not cutting government like any truly sane person would.
ReplyDeleteSadly that leaves nobody to vote for. Where are our conservative libertarians? Who will save us from the cancer of the 'special interests' who generate many of these programme costs.
ReplyDeleteThis is a perfect way to make retired people eventually dependent. Tax all their safe investments (again) to death and charge them when they need services. Those of us who are independently wealthy will soon not be, as our savings are being redistributed to private-public boondogle schemes (carbon tax) and special interest groups who receive government handouts.
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