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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Increasing taxes isn't obvious at all. In fact it was the Conservatives with the GST who last increased our taxes and Mulroney is still hated for it today. Even if our taxes are increased, not that I want this, if it is accompanied by increased services, we have chance to vote on what we want. Try to quit repeating dogma without thought and your ideas will go farther.
As for getting out of Afghanistan, I don't agree with it, but it has nothing to do with gutting the military.
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Well lets not get to carried away here. The PCs dropped a hidden tax and instituted the 7% GST...in retrospect they should have left things as they were. To suggest the Liberals of the last decade didnt raise taxes is ludicrous.
The purpose of the national sales tax was to replace the 13.5% Manufacturers' Sales Tax (MST) that the federal government imposed at the wholesale level on manufactured goods. Manufacturers were concerned that the tax hurt their international competitiveness. The GST also replaced the Federal Telecommunications Tax of 11%.
Every Government whether its Conservative, Liberal or NDP tries to grab our cash in any way possible. Even Conservative Alberta has Government fees for everything...not to mention the silly slot machines that grab millions of dollars a year from willing participants.
Taxes take many different forms.