To my NEO CON friend.

1. For someone living in Ottawa, you'd think you would know a bit more about budgets.

Since when is the National Capital Region a hotbed for economic thinkers.

2. First off, the retailers can't suck it dry because every bill you now get has the P.S.T. and the G.S.T. clearly shown.

Gas pumps, car payments, Tim Hortons, shall I go on. Many retailers can hide that one percent or 10 cents you will save on a hamburger.


3. The the people who will be paying
.5% more income tax are negliable because most will get the $1000. exemption. It's
This only affects less than 1% of the population of Canada so they didn't take that money to pay for any programs. When everything is said and done, the "working families" will be paying less tax than they are right now. That's not my calculation, that's the calculations of the experts.

What experts, John Williamson from the Canadian Taxpayers.

Wrong, it is more like 40 percent of the population that fall under this income bracket that will be paying more taxes. They have to have children under the age of six to get the $1000 winfall, not to mention the provincial clawbacks that are part of the constitution.

"You don't throw stones at a man with a machine gun"