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Originally Posted by theKB
The PST should be scrapped entirely. Lets face it the last time we took a reasonably good idea for taxation and it went to the polls it got thrown out. I really don't care about a half a percent, its negligible but if it were a VAT/HST style tax that we are talking about it would make better sense.
IF you send anything like this to the polls it will fail because the NO side has strong arguments whether factual or not that makes it hard to overcome by the yes side.
Remember the Vander Zalm arguments against the HST? Its the same thing happening with the Translink arguments focussing on things like executive pay or overall salaries which amount for less than 10% of total operating budget (i think less than five) but it's easy appealing to the lowest common denominator of "these guys make more money than you".
I fully expect the NO side to win, just not sure about the margin of victory.
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Yes, the PST should be scrapped if replaced with a VAT like HST.
Remember the Liberals
tried to do that without a vote, but we had slick Willy rally the geriatric crowd and now we're left with the PST. I'd say it's at least another 10 years until we can try the HST plan again.
But, at the end of the day it makes sense to tie transit funding to something related to GDP, since the demands should move in a similar fashion. That usually means income tax or sales tax.
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