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Originally Posted by HOOT
People in BC didn't get rid of the tax because they thought it was the logical thing to do. Most voted against it because of the way it was brought in, dictator-ish, instead of having a vote which they ended up having. I honestly believe talking to people if the BC government would have put it up for vote at the begin with and/or offered some incentive to bring in HST besides make costs even higher out here (like the 10% HST they were promising if we kept it) people would have voted differently.
It seems for most I've spoken to, they voted to get rid of it because of the way it was brought in, not because it was a good or bad idea. I personally didn't vote at all because I don't care either way because I realized no matter the outcome it was going to cost me money.
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Yeah, people did not like it because of how it was brought in, but in my opinion that does not warrant what happened; costing the province billions to repay the federal government back, and guaranteeing we'll never even discuss a a new tax for at minimum a decade.
That all said, I would have to argue that people here in BC that rejected the HST at first didn't like it because of how it was brought in. That was a legitimate complaint, and I was upset with it as well, however, over time it evolved in to a hate for the tax itself, which was spearheaded by, of all the people in the world, Bill Vander Zalm (fun fact: Vander Zalm's people suggested to not pay the federal government back... which is hilarious).