The postal system, like any other "business", is a service. In a VAT
regime, services as well as goods are taxed.

The majority idiots here in British Columbia have voted to dismantle
the provincial portion of the combined fed/prov harmonized VAT, to
return to a "goods only" sales tax for provincial purposes that
cascades through the chain, being applied repetitively at each sales
step... but the unwashed masses don't unnerstand that, thanks to the
bleatings of a disgraced right-wing twit who once led the Provincial
Government a couple of decades ago.

Let's be fair to the idiots.

Our much hated ex Premier Gordon Campbell, who now has a cushy job as High
Commissioner to Britain was elected on a promise NOT to adopt the HST and
within months of being elected, the tax was announce and imposed upon BCers.
It was obvious that given the short implementation time, the Campbell
government already had the plans in the works before the election. This is
why the masses voted in a referendum to have the HST removed. Campbell then
resigned and was replaced by another bag woman, in this case who as said the
HST will take a couple of years to remove. A couple of years to remove and
just over a year to impose up BCers without any public consultations.

The tax may be a just and fair tax but what the majority of people in BC
were P/Oed about was the underhanded way it was imposed.


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Cheers.

Roger Traviss


Photos of the late HO scale GER: -

http://www.greateasternrailway.com

For more photos not in the above album and kitbashes etc..:-
http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l9...Great_Eastern/