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Originally Posted by curves2000
There are a lot of items that are GST exempt, a lot, but there is a massive amount of food in the grocery stores that is GST taxable. As prices rise, so does the cost of the tax.
There is also import duties on products like dairy, cheeses and more. A lot of the supply management system we have in Canada for cheese, dairy, poultry and more can in someways be considered a tax.
Plenty of fuel surcharge, environmental levy, transportation related costs/taxes that are ever growing on our transportation bill. A pallet that used to cost $125 to ship from Vancouver is now approaching $500.
Costs have gotten out of control but the government does have an ability to reduce it's own burden and improve things across the board with some very basic things. The port system, the highway and transportation, tax on fuel, labour for transportation and agriculture, general taxes and fee's .
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So what you’re saying is you want the government to give the businesses a break and probably want to convince people that those savings will trickle down to consumers but instead of just saying that you decided to post it as “Can the government assist their own people and perhaps reduce the taxation on items at the grocery store?”
Seems pretty misleading.