Campbell and Hansen will destroy the entire province. They are far too stubborn and arrogant, to admit they are wrong. The combination of the HST and Hansen’s unreasonable budget, is going to put citizens out of their homes. However, they have to know that, if everyone else does. The budget, taxes every staple you need for daily existence. Heat, hydro, gasoline. Phone, cable have the HST applied. The HST has a very long arm. Price gouging, goes unchecked by Campbell. Such as, gasoline and food costs. So he is not going to give a dam, if the HST destroys the lives of BC citizens. The BC Liberals, are that shameful, they don’t even give a dam, about children in poverty. Campbell sunk that low, he wouldn’t even raise the minimum wage, he said, I have done enough for those people???? Campbell and Hansen, are sociopaths and pathological liars, they are fascists. No-one understands, THEY DON’T CARE. Unless anyone can think up a way, to get rid of the entire, BC Liberal Party, nothing will change. This province has regressed, so far back, it will take 30 years. to repair all the horrendous damage.

Churchill said it best, “The further back one looks the further forward one can see”. From the earliest recorded dictators (the Romans) to present date every dictator has overtaxed their people to build a monument to themselves. Let us at least buy King Gordon a simple gravestone.

RESISTING BOGUS ECONOMIC HST ARGUMENTS
It is important that supporters of FightHST know how to respond to the economists & business people who try to defend the introduction of the HST, especially knowing how to challenge the constant stream of ‘independent’ experts paraded by “The Vancouver Sun” on an almost daily basis.

The most important point is NOT to fight the battle over HST on their terms: this is exactly how the rich want the debate to be conducted. This tax is a POLITICAL move initiated by Big Business & its wealthy supporters, who do not constitute more than 10% of the population. Only Big Government & Big Business care about economic TOTALS, like GNP or international competitiveness. The rest of us are most concerned with how much things cost that we buy everyday & how much income we receive each month. Economic abstractions like productivity & capital investments are smokescreens, created by the shills of the rich (‘economists’) to preserve the privileges of the pampered. The vast majority of BC’s people are more concerned about how much of the pie they each end up with, not how big is the pie (the province’s economic totals).

We have heard too often the ‘trickle-down’ platitudes & slogans, like “more jobs & higher wages”. If there were genuine benefits for ALL of BC, why didn’t Gordon Campbell make this tax change the heart of his election campaign? Carole Taylor, who was BC finance minister for three years, knows a lot more about the reality of this type of tax after listening to the special pleadings from the BC business community. She vigorously rejected this move to shift these huge amounts (over eighteen hundred million dollars) of tax, each year, from large corporations to the general tax-paying public – from the few who can afford to pay, onto the many who cannot.

This tax-transfer has to be resisted on the grounds of FAIRNESS. This is the same argument for graduated income tax – those who CAN afford to pay the most tax are taxed at the highest rate. Any form of ‘flat-tax’ is grossly unfair on the vast majority of BC citizens who have difficulty surviving in today’s economy. When BC controls its own tax destiny as it does with the PST, political pressure can be brought to bear to exclude certain items, like rents or movies, while other luxury items only affordable to the wealthy, like meals over $100, can be taxed at much higher rates.

Fantastic. It’s good to see our hard work is paying off. Gives more inspiration to do more.

Please be arare, with the time going on, the signature increase speed would slow down. The people who are eager to sign would sign at first month.
There are some people who wants to sign but are lazy to walk to the signing booth. I suggest besides current collection method, we should go door to door to collect the singatures from these people.

It takes, on average, five pairs of hands to bring goods to market. Each step of the way, let’s say, the HST is collected. Doesn’t that result in astronomical inflation? No. Because only the consumer pays and the rest, the so-called middlemen, are refunded. If the tax represented 6% of purchase price, five pairs of hands would pay a total of 30% more, seeing it from the government’s perspective. But the government then refunds 24% of that amount. Now, someone please explain how refunding 24% and keeping 6% (of that 30% collected) actually represents a net profit to government. Plus postage and handling on all those HST refunds! Plus the new bureaucracy, the accountants, and the blinky fraud investigators!!! Does the Campbell government realize that BC will actually lose money on the HST? No. And why? Because Gordon Campbell doesn’t care. He can do more damage to this province with another useless tax than he could by building a dam so high that the river turned around and flowed in the other direction.

Where can residents of Victoria Swan Lake go to sign this petition. I have been unable to find a list of locations!!!!!

With over 65% of ridings at the 10% the politicians should take the views of the public seriously. But I don’t they will. They are stubborn.

To Jacquie Maxwell – click this link for a list of locations where you can go sign petition:
http://fighthst.com/locations/?region1=ALL%20LOCATIONS%20IN%20BRITISH%20COLUMBIA

Or go to the home page – fighthst.com and click the link below the picture at the top left, that says “SIGNING LOCATIONS”

With the public endorsement of the No HST by the BC Federation of Labour, Campbell should be veeeeery worried about what is going to unfold over the next few months.
Regardless, I think the call for the “Recall in the Fall” should go ahead. That is the only way anything will get done.
It would a quirk of fate if Campbell was the first MLA to be recalled – I doubt he would be able to put up with the public humiliation. Maybe he would emigrate to the US – the country he serves more than BC.

Thank you.

John Wood

There are ructions and anger at P.M. Harper. Seems, he is accused of being arrogant, and, has done some name calling. Campbell, Hansen and Harper, are peas, in the same pod. What a conundrum. Campbell and Harper are buddies, they really work together well. But, Campbell is supposed to be Liberal, is he not? But Mr, Iggnatief, is Liberal, however, Campbell, doesnt chum around with Iggnatief, and go on trips with him. Jack Layton, is silent, we hear very little from him. So, are Conservatives Liberals, or are Liberals Conservatives? I think Alberta, has the right idea, the western provinces should seperate from the east. That way, all the arrogance will be in one place, down east.

I am sick of the lies on which Liberals elections are won. The HST will take the “life out of living” for our family. We can barely afford to maintain a single family dwelling now. The promise of rebates is just more spin, and more money spent on administration. We must do all we can to stop this, and stop Campbell’s dictatorship, and cruel treatment of tax payers. ENOUGH! Am I angry? You bet!

It is not a coincidence that Campbell & Hansen represent two of the ridings with the highest per-capita income in BC, particularly when a recent poll (reported in “The Globe & Mail”) showed that the only demographic still supporting the BC Liberals & their HST initiative are those individuals making over $100,000 per year.
The rich have always known they are fighting the Class War (especially in democracies) – they are just not telling anyone else.

Gordon Campbell is now trying a new spin to justify his introduction of the HST – saving BC’s forestry & mining sectors.
If Gordo knew anything about economics he would know that the fortunes of these two industries rise & fall with demand on the world markets. Tiny subsidies from BC taxpayers will not make any difference to their investment or employment plans.
Perhaps, instead of the HST, Gordo should have suggested creating a new tax-deductible charity for these industries so that BC citizens can show their support for these multi-national companies. Somehow, I don’t think he would get too many voluntary donations.

One that should be recalled this fall is Kash Heed, who has been elected by fraud. It is irrelevant whether he knew it or not, he should have had the decency to resign. In his riding there are lots and lots of coops inhabited by low income families, and a significant number of seniors, most of whom don’t buy Pinocchio Hansen’s lies. It should be easy to get rid of him.

At this point, rather than trying to get ultra high numbers in most ridings, why not make a point of getting 40% in some selected Liberal ridings? Why not show the so-called-liberals what they could face?