A winter sunset
....And the Liberals taketh away.
In a desperate attempt to gain favour with the voters, our premier promised us a 15% reduction in personal income taxes. Now that he is resigning, he no longer needs to be generous, in fact he is getting even with us for not approving of him. The promised reduction was just that, only a promise.
In my view, all of this turmoil over the HST and Campbell's fall in the polls could have been avoided had he simply reduced the HST rate by, say 2%. There would then have been a reduction in taxes on everything that was fully taxed before, and a moderate increase in those things that were not PST or GST taxable before. It would be an overall net gain for the coffers of the government, but it would have softened the blow. We could have lived with it. Too late now. The HST anger has progressed to MLA recall petitions being passed around numerous ridings in the province. And yesterday our lame duck premier canned a caucus member. It is getting more ugly with each passing day.
And my pick for a successor for the Liberal leadership? She has officially announced that she will not be letting her name stand. Dianne Watts, the mayor of Surrey is smart. She is standing by and watching the Liberals implode. Either she will step in later to pick up the pieces, or she will wait until after the Liberals are soundly defeated in the next election. She IS a rising star.
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