So under the NDP logic that the HST is variously "a tax grab", tax credits "a bribe" and other vitriolic rhetoric, I wonder how they will play this:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9015942.html
The Dexter government's budget includes a two-point increase in the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax, bringing the province's share to 10 per cent, and a 15-per cent HST in total.
It will be the highest harmonized sales tax in the country.
Wait, I thought the NDP was, in the words of Andrea Horwath "the only party to oppose the HST federally and provincially"? Is that why Darrell Dexter, who just last year was seen as the darling child of the NDP, leading his party to victory in Nova Scotia for the first time, has not only not abolished the HST, but has actually raised it? Given that under the NDP system, the federal and provincial parties are joined, does this mean either the entire NS NDP will be disowned by the party, or the federal NDP MP's from the province magically be in favour of the HST?
Or will the NDP, and in particular, the ONDP ignore the issue because it ruins a talking point? I'm betting on the latter.
2 comments:
Nice one.
The Democracy has been taken out of the NDP since Horwath and her cronies have taken power.
For more information visit Ontario NDP Ginger Project
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