I went to get a haircut the other day and my barber said that starting next month my hair cut costs would jump nearly $2.50. That’s when I first felt the bite of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST), a new form of tax for services rendered. I asked whether he had something to sell me that could retard my hair growth.
I had heard about the HST, but had not been educated about its effect on my personal or family life. However, recent events have changed all of that. This “harmonized sales tax” has been inducing anything but harmony since the Bill was introduced. It has prompted an unprecedented reaction in the Province of British Columbia and other parts of Canada.
It is not unlike the emergence of the Tea Party movement launched in 2009 in the United States. The name was built around the Boston Tea Party, an iconic event that centered on citizen resistance to “taxation without representation.” The letters T.E.A. have been turned into an activist slogan, “Taxed Enough Already.” Read the rest of this entry »
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