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- From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
- Newsgroups: can.politics,soc.culture.canada,can.general
- Subject: Re: Liberal Party Tax Policy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.173453.7131@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:34:53 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1993Jan27.173453.7131
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- yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee) writes:
- >
- >Facts:
- >
- >- The GST has caused caused inflation to soar. According to Stats
- >Can, the GST was responsible for a 1.6% increase in the CPI in Jan 1991.
- >Consequently, the implementation of the GST was in direct conflict with
- >the government's own inflation target.
-
- This would be true if the GST were a new tax. It replaces a hidden
- wholesale tax that previously existed.
-
- >- cross-border shopping has increased.
-
- Read your newspaper. It has gone down, due in large part to better
- domestic marketing and internal streamlining in the private sector
- (leaner and meaner). If you have to, get last Wednesday's NYT.
-
- It looks like I've left the federal Liberals for good now ...
-
- gld
- --
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Je me souviens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Gary L. Dare
- > gld@columbia.EDU GO Winnipeg Jets GO!!!
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