Blacklock’s- GST Holiday Costs 80% More
A GST holiday will cost 80 percent more than claimed by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, the Budget Office said yesterday. Analysts said Freeland failed to account for mandatory compensation owed provinces that harmonized their own sales tax collections with the GST.
Two in three Canadians think the federal government giving a $250 cheque to
working families is a poor (23%) or very poor idea (43%) while less than one
in five think this is a very good (six per cent) or good idea (nine per cent).
About one in two Canadians think the temporary elimination of GST and HST
on items like grocery store meals and internet bills is a very poor (32%) or
poor idea (19%), while about one in four think this is a very good (12%) or
good idea (16%).
Regarding the Nanos survey:
I am trying to think if the Trudoo government came up with even one good idea.
Help me here.
When they call an election.
Good ideas? This is difficult because the Trudeau government has had remarkably little legislation of any kind over the past decade. Of significant legislation, this includes:
1. the banning of single use plastics in 2020;
2. the demolition of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, elimination of the National Energy Board, and replacing it with the Impact Assessment Act:
3. the legalization of Mary-Jane in 2017;
4. federal takeover of TMX;
5. banning “assault-style” firearms in 2019;
6. MAIDS in 2016;
7. Carbon Tax starting in 2015;
8. Federal paid dental plan in 2022.
And that’s pretty much it. I leave it to you to judge whether any of these things are a good idea. I would simply note that for a government in power for a decade this is a very short list. This government has not been particularly active in legislation. Which is maybe a good thing.
No, it is a very bad thing. Since government expenditures during this period outstripped GDP growth by a wide margin, the government grew in both relative and absolute size. This indicates governance by executive fiat, which with morality and competence could be a good thing, but in the absence of both, you get what we got, a broke, broken country now only fit for demolition.
Morality and competence in government bureaucrats and politicians are much rarer than in the general public, probably as rare as in a federal penitentiary. Given this, legislation to contain their worst excesses, and provide at least theoretical accountability are critical. Power corrupts and all that.
Take government spending and borrowing away from the g d p numbers and we are going backwards.
At around $5 billion a month being added to Canadians’ debt load for chilfren and grandchildren to pay for all their lives without benefit, it would sure be nice to get the next Federal election underway as soon as possible. (MP pensions and Party finances just aren’t that important). Yet I still haven’t heaed of a single Liberal or NDP voter calling their MP and telling them to bring down the Government in a non-confidence vote.
There is literally nothing that goverment cannot f*ck up!
I find I’m repeating myself yet again but this whole “GST holiday” is a particularly Liberal-Canadian way of providing tax relief. Simply cutting or eliminating the GST across ALL items, thus providing ALL Canadians with permanent GST relief on everything, is not something our government would do for the simple reason that they are incapable of conceiving of themselves as the limited government of a free people spending their extra after-tax dollars in a manner that each citizen sees fit. No, this individualized, decentralized approach to dispensing a benefit from government is wholly alien to the current crop in Ottawa who see themselves as more of a ‘broker’ to all sorts of constituencies, interest groups, power blocs, lobbies, supplicants, dependents, etc., all making claims for government favoritism, rent-seeking, preferential treatment, and the like.
According to this worldview, government exercises and perpetuates its power by distributing (or denying) government largesse to these various constituencies (the tax system is a useful tool in accomplishing this) and simply giving everyone a generic, permanent tax break robs government of this tremendous power, indeed in many cases, their very raison d’etre
So in order to alleviate the pains of the inflation caused by printing money, the Cdn government will print more money.
Justin logic.
You spelled Just-insanity, wrong.
Can’t wait for perogy thighs’ budget blather, then, happy holy days, serfs. see you next year for more of our demented democratic destructiveness.
HA ha ha ha!!
“Analysts said Freeland failed to account for mandatory compensation owed provinces that harmonized their own sales tax collections with the GST.”
No way. She’s the smartest person in the government. She literally wrote books on this stuff.
J-school graduate thought there would be no math?
This hurts me. It makes me think more Canadians than I believe get it. Oh well, new facts require new thinking.
Oh look the Red Dwarf lies.
Has this passed the Senate yet?
Not yet. When it will be tabled in the Senate is not known right now.
The Liberals and the rest of the Socialists just passed 21.6 BILLION dollars bill ! This money will go to Quebec and the First Nations! The Conservatives were the only ones with the sense to vote against this!!!!! We in the West cannot effort this BULLSHIT any longer! Canada is done!!!!!