Dear editor,
There is considerable confusion about the details of the HST.
We do not all clearly understand just exactly how it applies to our own situations, the things we buy, business or the economy generally. We need to learn quite a lot. It may not be as bad as we thought.
Would, or could, an NDP government change it?
The anti-HST effort was an expression of concern over the way the tax was introduced, not the tax itself. Recall of our local MLA is really a different and somewhat pitiful affair.
He did not help to produce the HST. He has not had much time in government, but so far he has done no harm that I can recall. In fact he has behaved very well. So why pick on him?
Why pick on anybody? Why do recall at all 鈥� it is an expensive process, local organizers are having a hard time to raise the money required to run the campaign.
The chances are it will fail.
And what if it were to succeed? We would then have the cost of another election. Whoever may win, do you want the cost of another extra election?
Any costs involved in electing new MLAs will be paid by the government, and costs they have to pay, in the end, we pay.
In a couple of years we shall have another election anyway, and surely that is the time to change the government if you don鈥檛 like them.
No folks, the whole thing will not work. I don鈥檛 care whose side you are on. The recall will not work. The HST is here and will stay.
All you can hope for is that in time there may be some changes to the items on the list, and or some reduction in one or other of the two taxes that make up the HST.
Jack Turner
