“AFTER FIGHT HST”

While working as a canvasser on the front lines of the “FightHST” campaign, I am both heartened and disheartened. Meeting the public and giving them their, voice through the Initiative is most gratifying because of how strongly people feel about the issue.

There are two dominant reasons that we have so many voters lined up to sign the Initiative. The main reason is the tax itself, but there are also a great many, that are simply angry over the deceit and the arrogance of Gordon Campbell and his Liberals.

Most heartening are the numbers we are seeing. This means that we will be able to make the Initiative work which, by the way, is something that the NDP, “authors” of the initiative legislation thought would be next to impossible.

What happens next is disheartening. This will be when the wishes of the B.C. voters will be relegated back into the partisan political field. The NDP are hoping for a recall in enough Electoral Districts to well secure for them, a majority government. This could be a good thing only if they get rid of the HST, something they are unwilling to commit to doing.

So, lets say we get an NDP government that inherits a bankrupt province. The deals have been made, the trade agreements are in place, and the privatization machinery is already active and all too expensive for the new NDP regime to rescind. Its best option is to continue with the HST.  Once again, nothing really changes.

Do we all have rings in our noses, so to be led, over and over, to the slaughter?  I am thinking that maybe this time we should fight back.

There may be a way out of our sheepdom but it will take a concentrated effort using alternate media to get a lot of people thinking. I say alternate media, because the mainstream media finds it more profitable to sell you a hockey game, than let you know who is in your pocket. That same pocket that is going to be picked by this tax, and that tax, and many other taxes that you don’t even know about. Do you as a taxpayer even know about the “Milligan Tax”? I would urge you to find out on your own, what a “Milligan” type of tax would mean to all of us. Please take a few minutes of your time to look at http://www.cfoss.com/milligantax.html

I am sure you will find it most edifying and it will lead you into an interesting education on the “business” of government or “the government by business.

I have personally written to the “Governor of The Bank of Canada” asking him some questions that we “all” should be interested in. I will post the letter on my blog and the answer should I get one.

Thank you for listening to my rant.

Alan

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