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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Sweet, free money! Thanks for finally doing something useful Justin.
The tax holiday should be extended to all food items and not just prepared food. I'm not necessarily sure that booze is the best choice but whatever.
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This is just a terrible policy.
We already give out GST rebate checks to people .
We already don’t have GST on most food. This just adds prepared food to the list. (I don’t have a particular problem with this add though).
Most of this list appears targeted around Christmas presents. If there is one thing that doesn’t need incentivizing it’s alcohol and consumerism consumption at Christmas.
Then the working tax check in April is pretty bull#### to. 150k cutoff. You are not making it universal but also not cutting of the threshold at a reasonable point in time. The lack of Taxing middle class people is hurting the ability to deliver services.
At least when Harper bought votes by canceling the children’s dependent tax rebates and sending out checks directly it was revenue neutral.
Also from an inflation standpoint this is reckless. We don’t need retail stimulation. This just burns powder from whenever we hit a recession.