Re: Mental energy

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Karl Swenson wrote:
> All I can say is when I was there in 2002-2003 I was amazed at how many 
> taxes there were.  GST and PST and the guys who worked there told me 
> about high income taxes.

Well, we've fused the GST and the PST into a single tax now: the HST! 
(Which, to me, is a laugh, because back when the GST was introduced, there 
was a spoof of it going around called the Human Sexuality Tax, with T-69 
forms etc.)  Which means that, if you were paying 5% GST *and* 7% PST for 
some items, there's no change: now you pay a single 12% tax.  *But*, if 
you were paying only 5% GST for some items, or only 7% PST for other 
items, you now pay 12% for pretty much everything.  Sigh.

Alberta, on the other hand, doesn't have *any* provincial sales tax, so 
they only have to pay the GST.  (The "H" in HST stands for "Harmonized 
Sales Tax", and since there's no provincial tax to harmonize with the 
federal tax, there is no harmonized tax.)

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