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Originally Posted by Fuzz
The carbon tax gets mostly rebated, it's not like a "real tax". *Fuzz pauses for incoming strawman rant about CoL increases* Done? *Fuzz pauses for false equivalency comparison to GST rebates* OK? OK!
Harper left a massive infrastructure deficit and only managed to balance the budget with creative sales of assets.
And yes, Liberal spending really seems to be out to lunch, and it's time for a change of government in some manner to fix that.
Now, what issue do you think the GST was implemented to solve?
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Mostly rebated? If you take Trudeau and Freeland at their word. It's been proven that the rebate is a net positive for ONLY the poorest segment of the population which sounds great in theory except for the fact that it's a growing segment too. For you and me who have time to fart around and post on these forums, it's definitely a tax.
The GST was a replacement of the manufacturers tax so I was wrong to claim that it was implemented to pay down Trudeau debt, however the point remains on what had to happen after Trudeau 1.0 and it continued well after Mulroney.