HST Terrible for long-term investor

4:24 am PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Germany

11:38 am PDT, Oct 28, Rebecca Moore, Canada
Just another money grab for the government. Every service we have been paying tax on will now be increased by 8%. Disgusting!

4:50 pm PDT, Oct 23, Michelle Mak, Singapore
To the government politians, tax increase is always a good news to them as they get paid more. But to the taxpayers, it is a horrible bad news. Whatever we buy, we have to pay the HST, it is robbing the money out of our pockets. We had enough! We must not pay more of those taxes!!

4:03 pm PDT, Oct 22, David Stach, Canada
I am writing to convey my dismay at your approval of the new HST. Very simply, any tax imposed by government on people is a detriment to any economy. I do not know if you attended any economics classes, but one of the first things you’d learn in Macroeconomics is that taxes restrict spending and saving on all parties whether it be business or consumers. In the past, we had a protective tariff that protected Canadian industries from slave labor countries like China. Now, our economy is dictated to by the World Trade Organization and many other “trade obligations” that force business to compete with slave labor. How soon will it be that people’s living standards are significantly lowered? When their spending power has been diminished by a lowered wage. I wish someone in provincial or federal government would have taken some economics classes to realize that Keynesian (1) economics has always failed throughout history, and Canada will be no different in its tax policies. As far as I am concerned, I think you are being told what to say about the new HST without any critical thought, and I hope that you rescind your approval of the HST. Canada already has close to an $800 billion dollar foreign external debt, and is set to rise to $1 trillion dollars in 6 years’ time. Do you not have any morals or ethics, Ms. Pupatello? Increased taxation benefits no one but inefficient government when the money is better spent by the hands of ordinary Canadians. We do not need government to tell us how to spend our hard earned money. I know that the administrative assistants you have reading these e-mails probably get a good laugh out of these ideas, but they are the truth and something you will not learn in University classrooms because all of the economics classes in partially federally-funded institutions are primarily based on tax-and-spend economics (Keynesianism). I am very disappointed in the Liberal government you represent and have been telling everyone to petition against this new HST.

3:15 pm PDT, Oct 22, Tristan Lestat, Alabama

7:07 am PDT, Oct 22, CLEO PAPAGEORGIOU, Greece

2:34 am PDT, Oct 22, Steve Klein, Virginia

5:33 pm PDT, Oct 21, Jason Woods, Canada

12:40 pm PDT, Oct 21, Name not displayed, Canada

11:59 am PDT, Oct 21, Name not displayed, Canada

11:42 am PDT, Oct 21, Name not displayed, Canada
Please stop taxing us! We pay enough taxes in this country as it is.....when service levels drop, and inflation erodes our buying power!

11:22 am PDT, Oct 21, Name not displayed, Canada

10:40 am PDT, Oct 21, Carole Hagen, Oregon