So I was given the heads up on the following article from @SusanJones on Twitter http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Liberals+free+change+anti+proposal/3394377/story.html
Now I'm back to my original rant on the HST Extinguishment Act and general apathy of people when it comes to politics.
First off, we live in a democracy. Democracy by definition is "government by the people" so why are we not ensuring that the politicians who get elected are doing what we want? Better yet, why are we all not voting to ensure that the leaders we ALL want in power are the ones that get elected?
I am all for less taxes because I don't think that our government is being all that responsible with our money but is there more that could be done to kill HST than JUST the HST Extinguishment Act? Personally I think there is. I think if we start calling for more transparency on where are current tax dollars are going and making a stink about where money could be more wisely spent HST Extinguishment Act may have a better chance of surviving, or even getting to, a legislative debate.
Now I'm not political science major. I am a paralegal that has seen all too many times how legislation is ineffective; how our system is flawed; and how people are apathetic to calling for change when needed. However, it doesn't seem right that when I waste my money I have to suffer but when the government wastes my money they don't suffer, they don't pay the consequences it's the taxpayers that pay for their lack of fiscal responsibility.
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why are so few voting? you answered your own question with the perception that governments aren't responsible with our money.
surely there is waste, but the majority of our taxes fund public services like education and healthcare, until it all gets privatized.
taxes are how we buy things together as a society. campbell doesn't like collective ownership or collective anything.
if we paid no taxes, we'd have no public ownership of dams, schools, hospitals, etc.
honestly, political science majors sometimes have a crazy narrow and irrelevant view of things.
by the way, did you know that under the HST even Colin Hansen said the government would bring in $113m less income? so it was a tax cut as well as a tax shift from large corporations to people.
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