首先是HST,据The Canadian Press获得的材料,Liberal政府财政部是去年5月15日主动跟联邦政府接触谋求实施HST的,此前财政部长Colin Hansen在回应反对党质疑为什么自由党的省选纲领里头没有HST这一条是不是为了蒙蔽省民的时候一再强调,省选之前HST一直不在他们的雷达上,省选之后才考虑这个可能性的。
还听见了我们金省长回应Bill Vander Zalm发起的这个Citizen Initiative,说他是政客,这是有政治目的的。俺确信Zalm有其政治目的,generally speaking,俺不喜欢任何一个政客,let alone a drunk one ,但是两害相较取其轻的时候,俺会选择在俺关心的问题上更能代表俺的利益的那个。何况这个citizen initiative只不过是Zalm组织,能让占多数的反对HST的选民有个反对的渠道而已。金省长恨Zalm的话,俺建议在马上要举行的UFC前加赛一场,他们两个赤膊上阵打一架,此外别提肮脏的政客之类的玩意儿,who比who白多少啊?
金省长说HST好的理由,跟坛子上一些同学的理由一样:又不多加税(对省政府而言税收是一样的,据说,但是business少缴税,消费者多交税,由此平衡),还能刺激经济,于是能给BC引来millions and millions of investment,中间的证明步骤一概掠过,总之是好事,你信金省长就对了。
* The purpose of the initiative draft bill is to declare that the agreement between the federal government and the British Columbia government to establish a harmonized sales tax (HST) is not in effect.
* The draft bill would reinstate the seven per cent provincial sales tax (PST) with the same exemptions as were in effect as of June 30, 2010 and establish the provincial sales tax as the only sales tax in British Columbia for the purposes of raising provincial revenue.
* The draft bill proposes that it be effective retroactively to June 30, 2010.
* The bill also proposes that the provincial share of HST revenues received between June 30, 2010 and the date of royal assent of the bill that exceeds what would be collected under the PST rules as of June 30, 2010 would be reimbursed to British Columbians on a per capita basis.