Fair enough - I checked my bill and you're right about the groceries.
On the other hand, my larger point was that there is such a thing as incentive-based taxation and monetary policy. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not denying that.
Do you remember the controversy over the HST obliterating the incentive-based PST exemption on things like bicycles? In fact, to erase any confusion or any possibility of straw-man dismissals of my entire point of view on such dubious grounds, I edited my above post accordingly. Thanks for pointing out the error.
This in turn makes my suggestion credible as one possible alternative to the "let's just keep doing what we're doing and hope billions of dollars for Evergreen, UBC and Surrey Skytrain extensions will magically fall into our laps" line of argument.
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