06-08-2009, 06:07 PM
So, here's the skinny:
Currently in Ontario, businesses have to pay GST and PST on the purchase of million dollar machines.
Because PST is 8 freaking percent, that means that they have to pay an extra $80k on every million dollar purchase.
This makes it harder to do business in provinces like Ontario because other provinces... like Alberta, don't have PST. So, if Bobworth wants to buy a million dollar Brewmaster2000 for his distillery he doesn't have to spend a bonus $80k if he does it in Alberta as opposed to Ontario.
So, what's the solution to this problem oh, mega-gay Liberal provincial government? Oh, I know, exempt them from that tax! Oh wait, better idea! Instead of exempting them from that tax, just make a new tax that replaces both other taxes and gets applied to whatever we feel like! WOO~!
Yes, they went with option B.
A year from now, folks in Ontario will have HST. What's HST? It's a new tax. They take GST (5%) and PST (8%) and put them together into HST (13%). Ok, big deal right? Wrang.... in Ontario tons of stuff doesn't get taxed by PST. So all that stuff that was exempt is now UNEXEMPT. Except capital purchases, that gets exempt now....
What gets that bonus 8% added to it? Freaking everything. Everything will cost 8% more to the consumer.
Things like:
Fast food under $4 (Tim Hortons anyone?)
Houses over $400k (Toronto anyone)
Property
Insurance (all insurance)
Used cars (students anyone?)
Gym memberships (not students anymore, anyone?)
Every rental or anything.
There lots more.
Oh, I almost forgot. EVERY SERVICE EVER.
Yes, that includes: gasoline, electricity, natural gas, all repairs ever (plumbing, electrical, roofing, gardening, mechanics, etc etc etc), the Popsicle man, haircuts, veterinary fees, internet service, cell phone service, normal phone service, construction, every service ever. Seriously.
Hopefully you don't rent your house, because if you do, you're the most screwed person ever.
Hopefully you're not TRYING to rent out land/houses/whatever because you're even more screwed because not only are you stuck with property that's worth less than ever, you're also never going to be able to rent it out because the government is going to make it more expensive for people to rent from you. Good investment opportunities on Ontario property!!? Oh wait, never mind.
Ok, so everything in the world is going to cost more, and capital investments will cost less. Big freaking deal retards.
Apparently the liberal morons of the world are clapping their hands in excitement because its supposed to "increase investment" and "bring about a better quality of life". Better quality of life? What the hell is wrong with you? We all know that "quality of life" is just code for "how much you have to pay to survive". Suppose you own a hair salon, you're freaking screwed because nothing you had to pay for got added to your exemption list, but you now get charged a bonus 8% on all of your income. Suppose you're a plumber, screwed. You think we won't try to evade these taxes? Like hell we won't.
I'm going to cast force lightning all over my freaking cable company if my costs go up another 8% I'll especially cast it over my half-ass crap for service cellphone company rears their ugly head to tell me I'm getting raped for more of my hard earned lifeblood.
I will pull off the fastest satellite piracy job in the history of the event if I have to pay any more for my crap ass network programming package, it will literally be insane. The sound barrier will be broken for 8 months, that's right bitches, no noise for 8 months, deal with it.
So, there's a list of other things being added to the exemption list:
books
baby car seats
feminine hygiene products
Wow, I'm so glad. Because today I was like, hmm, I think I'll eat nothing but car seats and feminine hygiene products for the rest of my life. And I'll pump my car full of books. Perfect.
Oh wait, I typed "perfect", but I meant to type "force a lama through a bureaucrat's nasal passages". For an oil pumping nation, we literally get the worst deal of all time on gasoline. We have more oil than Texas and use a tenth the US uses, except we pay double for it. Here's another bonus, we get to pay another 8% on top of that! Woohoo~! That means, in US terms, we will be spending an extra 32 cents per gallon, for funsies. Now, add in the fact that our gas prices fluctuate 40 cents per gallon during the week just because that's how it is (they stopped giving us reasons, I mean, seriously, we drill for it 30 paces to the left, I'd never believe their lies) and we basically are the unhappiest campers a chainsaw could make.
Now, MSJ, being half Quebec half Toronto (both so Liberal you can literally taste the sheer number of gay people just by breathing through a gas mask, the stench is literally that thick), will probably think this is the best thing ever. But now is not the time to be a suck up, I dare you to reply to this an TRY to explain how this isn't a horribly retarded solution to solve the "businesses are doing bad" issue.
Liberal columnists are writing all over the freaking place about how "everyone is mistakenly thinking that this is simply a tax shift, onto the consumer", but then they don't bother giving a compelling argument as to WHY THIS ISN'T JUST A FREAKING TAX SHIFT. They even acknowledge that the only reason the government can afford to not tax capital purchases is because everything else will cost 8% more. What the hell? How can you, even being a liberal hippie-loving idiot, not see the fault in your argument?
Apparently in BC (they already did that there), reports are showing that the cost of some things has gone down because of this. Well sure, maybe the ticket price went down, but the BOTTOM LINE sure as hell didn't. If I lived in BC I'd be saying "hmm, I could buy lumber for my house here... in this province, or I could take 10 paces to the left... and buy it from Alberta, and it'll cost 8% less....". Hmmm, real tough decision. Why not get the lumber from the States and end up paying half? That'd be good eh? BC sells their lumber to the States, it's only natural that buying our freaking lumber back from them would be cheaper than for us to buy it here, right where it was cut down. Oh wait, that's not natural at all, it's... FREAKING RETARDED. The MARKUP in price that US companies charge when they sell our lumber is LESS than the difference in the way our countries tax it. SoMcFreakingTarded.
When this goes through I will evade sales tax like the plague. I will have an American Satellite, I won't EVER buy clothes here, I'll meet some Farmers and buy every freaking thing I can as under the table as freaking possible, and I'm paying cash for every service I can possible manage to.
Screw you, you retarded bitches. You may have been able to leech 5%, but if you think I'm parting with 13% out of the goodness of my heart, you're dearly misinformed. I won't bother reacting if a few scraps go missing from my treasury, but when I see a gay, peg-legged, chain-smoking eskimo (where all our tax money goes) hobbeling away with a chunk 3x that original size, I'm going to send the chainsawdogs after him. Yes, those are the dogs that are so rabid they have chainsaws instead of foam in their mouths.
Deal with that, bitches.
Currently in Ontario, businesses have to pay GST and PST on the purchase of million dollar machines.
Because PST is 8 freaking percent, that means that they have to pay an extra $80k on every million dollar purchase.
This makes it harder to do business in provinces like Ontario because other provinces... like Alberta, don't have PST. So, if Bobworth wants to buy a million dollar Brewmaster2000 for his distillery he doesn't have to spend a bonus $80k if he does it in Alberta as opposed to Ontario.
So, what's the solution to this problem oh, mega-gay Liberal provincial government? Oh, I know, exempt them from that tax! Oh wait, better idea! Instead of exempting them from that tax, just make a new tax that replaces both other taxes and gets applied to whatever we feel like! WOO~!
Yes, they went with option B.
A year from now, folks in Ontario will have HST. What's HST? It's a new tax. They take GST (5%) and PST (8%) and put them together into HST (13%). Ok, big deal right? Wrang.... in Ontario tons of stuff doesn't get taxed by PST. So all that stuff that was exempt is now UNEXEMPT. Except capital purchases, that gets exempt now....
What gets that bonus 8% added to it? Freaking everything. Everything will cost 8% more to the consumer.
Things like:
Fast food under $4 (Tim Hortons anyone?)
Houses over $400k (Toronto anyone)
Property
Insurance (all insurance)
Used cars (students anyone?)
Gym memberships (not students anymore, anyone?)
Every rental or anything.
There lots more.
Oh, I almost forgot. EVERY SERVICE EVER.
Yes, that includes: gasoline, electricity, natural gas, all repairs ever (plumbing, electrical, roofing, gardening, mechanics, etc etc etc), the Popsicle man, haircuts, veterinary fees, internet service, cell phone service, normal phone service, construction, every service ever. Seriously.
Hopefully you don't rent your house, because if you do, you're the most screwed person ever.
Hopefully you're not TRYING to rent out land/houses/whatever because you're even more screwed because not only are you stuck with property that's worth less than ever, you're also never going to be able to rent it out because the government is going to make it more expensive for people to rent from you. Good investment opportunities on Ontario property!!? Oh wait, never mind.
Ok, so everything in the world is going to cost more, and capital investments will cost less. Big freaking deal retards.
Apparently the liberal morons of the world are clapping their hands in excitement because its supposed to "increase investment" and "bring about a better quality of life". Better quality of life? What the hell is wrong with you? We all know that "quality of life" is just code for "how much you have to pay to survive". Suppose you own a hair salon, you're freaking screwed because nothing you had to pay for got added to your exemption list, but you now get charged a bonus 8% on all of your income. Suppose you're a plumber, screwed. You think we won't try to evade these taxes? Like hell we won't.
I'm going to cast force lightning all over my freaking cable company if my costs go up another 8% I'll especially cast it over my half-ass crap for service cellphone company rears their ugly head to tell me I'm getting raped for more of my hard earned lifeblood.
I will pull off the fastest satellite piracy job in the history of the event if I have to pay any more for my crap ass network programming package, it will literally be insane. The sound barrier will be broken for 8 months, that's right bitches, no noise for 8 months, deal with it.
So, there's a list of other things being added to the exemption list:
books
baby car seats
feminine hygiene products
Wow, I'm so glad. Because today I was like, hmm, I think I'll eat nothing but car seats and feminine hygiene products for the rest of my life. And I'll pump my car full of books. Perfect.
Oh wait, I typed "perfect", but I meant to type "force a lama through a bureaucrat's nasal passages". For an oil pumping nation, we literally get the worst deal of all time on gasoline. We have more oil than Texas and use a tenth the US uses, except we pay double for it. Here's another bonus, we get to pay another 8% on top of that! Woohoo~! That means, in US terms, we will be spending an extra 32 cents per gallon, for funsies. Now, add in the fact that our gas prices fluctuate 40 cents per gallon during the week just because that's how it is (they stopped giving us reasons, I mean, seriously, we drill for it 30 paces to the left, I'd never believe their lies) and we basically are the unhappiest campers a chainsaw could make.
Now, MSJ, being half Quebec half Toronto (both so Liberal you can literally taste the sheer number of gay people just by breathing through a gas mask, the stench is literally that thick), will probably think this is the best thing ever. But now is not the time to be a suck up, I dare you to reply to this an TRY to explain how this isn't a horribly retarded solution to solve the "businesses are doing bad" issue.
Liberal columnists are writing all over the freaking place about how "everyone is mistakenly thinking that this is simply a tax shift, onto the consumer", but then they don't bother giving a compelling argument as to WHY THIS ISN'T JUST A FREAKING TAX SHIFT. They even acknowledge that the only reason the government can afford to not tax capital purchases is because everything else will cost 8% more. What the hell? How can you, even being a liberal hippie-loving idiot, not see the fault in your argument?
Apparently in BC (they already did that there), reports are showing that the cost of some things has gone down because of this. Well sure, maybe the ticket price went down, but the BOTTOM LINE sure as hell didn't. If I lived in BC I'd be saying "hmm, I could buy lumber for my house here... in this province, or I could take 10 paces to the left... and buy it from Alberta, and it'll cost 8% less....". Hmmm, real tough decision. Why not get the lumber from the States and end up paying half? That'd be good eh? BC sells their lumber to the States, it's only natural that buying our freaking lumber back from them would be cheaper than for us to buy it here, right where it was cut down. Oh wait, that's not natural at all, it's... FREAKING RETARDED. The MARKUP in price that US companies charge when they sell our lumber is LESS than the difference in the way our countries tax it. SoMcFreakingTarded.
When this goes through I will evade sales tax like the plague. I will have an American Satellite, I won't EVER buy clothes here, I'll meet some Farmers and buy every freaking thing I can as under the table as freaking possible, and I'm paying cash for every service I can possible manage to.
Screw you, you retarded bitches. You may have been able to leech 5%, but if you think I'm parting with 13% out of the goodness of my heart, you're dearly misinformed. I won't bother reacting if a few scraps go missing from my treasury, but when I see a gay, peg-legged, chain-smoking eskimo (where all our tax money goes) hobbeling away with a chunk 3x that original size, I'm going to send the chainsawdogs after him. Yes, those are the dogs that are so rabid they have chainsaws instead of foam in their mouths.
Deal with that, bitches.
