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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: fresc who wrote (8927)	3/20/2006 3:38:49 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37570

Like I said... all of them... never cheered for the Mulroney deficit... Just thought the GST and Free Trade were good ideas... unlike the Liberals... LOL If you wanna talk ecomomists here's Paul LOL... The GST is a “regressive and unfair tax on living, which will harm the economy by squeezing consumer buying power and creating an administrative nightmare for small businesses.” Paul Martin Press Release (April 9, 1990). “We hate it and we will kill it.” Jean Chrétien, Hansard (May 2, 1994) “I would abolish the GST. The Manufacturers Sales Tax is a bad tax but there’s no excuse to repeal one bad thing by bringing in another one.” Paul Martin, Montreal Gazette (April 4, 1990) “The leadership candidate is committed to scrapping the GST and replacing it with any one of a number of better alternatives.” Paul Martin Press Release (April 9, 1990) “I hope we don’t try to hood-wink people into thinking our commitment was contingent on the provinces agreeing to harmonize their taxes with the GST.” Paul Martin, Ottawa Citizen (June 21, 1994) “The federal government will scrap the hated GST within two years, Jean Chrétien pledged Thursday. In his most definitive statement on the national sales tax since winning the Oct. 25 election, the Liberal prime minister called the GST the worst tax in Canadian history.” Julian Beltrame, “GST dead in 2 years, PM vows,” Windsor Star (November 19, 1993), p. B12 “If the GST is not gone, I will have a tough time, the election after that. It’s the only specific promise that I’m making very clear, and it is going, it’s gone.” Jean Chrétien, CBC Prime Time News (February 11, 1993) “But the commitment we’ve made to the public is we want to get rid of the GST. I’ve always said that the GST will go.” Jean Chrétien, CTV News (January 22, 1993) Thanks... for the memories ;o)