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Old 09-27-2013, 11:55 AM   #106
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Originally Posted by GP_Matt View Post
For evidence one needs to look to the recent GST cut. The federal government reduced their consumption tax by two percent and the provincial governments promptly responded by snapping up that tax room and raising their taxes by the 2%.
Oh wait, that's how it happened right?
Ignoring the obvious fact that one incident is meaningless when trying to prove that governments nearly always raise taxes, which provinces raised their pst after the federal government reduced the gst? Ontario didn't. Alberta didn't.
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