Non-emotional politics? What a strange concept.
Despite Mr. McLaren's appeal for voter logic, it seems to me he employs an emotional carrot and stick approach in his arguments for the HST.
Despite the "Chicken Little, the sky will fall" tone of his particular argument, I don't think Enbridge or other investors with deep pockets will refuse to exploit B.C. resources, even if they are "penalized" by a 7 per cent tax for doing business.
Which, of course, begs the question of why the ordinary taxpayer should be penalized instead.
Those in favour of the HST have yet to address why previous PST/GST exempt items have been included in the HST.
Having to pay HST on my husband's funeral arrangements this past January added financial insult to emotional grief, and yes, I had a very emotional response to what I considered a sleezy way of squeezing money from me.
If I understand correctly, we the taxpayers are exhorted to forget the issue of accountability and transparency from government, in return for promises of jobs.
To be offered security, jobs or otherwise, for public acquiesence to government policy is, in some respects, hoping that the public consist of sheep.
In reading Paul Willocks's column, it would appear that B.C. will survive without the HST.
If fear has to be directed anywhere it should focus on why citizens of the U.S. and certain European countries are being financially destroyed and the greed that kicked off the global economic collapse.
Jeannette Paterson
Prince George
