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Originally Posted by #-3
What is essential?
just remember in answering this question you are being paternalistic.
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Well we have a pretty solid working definition already. I’m not sure why this seems to be so controversial to you though. We’ve had the GST in Canada for a few decades and always had exemptions for goods that are considered essential. It seems to work fine and while I haven’t searched for it, there doesn’t seem to be an uproar about it being levied on items that are essential and penalizing the working poor.