lies do not become elected official

Re: No vote best result for everyone The Times June 23, 23/2011


As any good Conservative Mr. Dalton has certainly mastered the "believe the unbelievable”  and he has definitely mastered the “ deny the undeniable” but the outright barefaced lies in his letter go way past the acceptable as an elected public servant. 


The statement that a "no vote best result for everyone" is quite simply a lie and the statement about reducing the HST from 12 to 10 percent people will be paying less no matter what tax bracket they are in is also an outright lie. We will just be paying a 100 percent HST increase on hundreds of previously exempt goods and services instead of 140 percent increase, that is if it ever happens at all, it is also the law that BC can not run a deficit budget, so which one of those conflicting laws do you think the BC Liberals or whatever political party is in power in 2013-2014 will honour. 


The rest of his letter is nothing but hell and brimstone fear-mongering and hyperbole, a desperate bid to pull victory from the jaws of a resounding public reprimand. 


This government has taken literally 1/20th more of my small income in the last 11 months of the HST, that is on top of all the taxes I used to pay with the GST-PST which was bad enough. Oh and once again I just happened to miss those low income credits, so not even a little help there. 


I have to wonder other than praying for the seniors and other individuals that this HST will inevitably put on the street when peoples ability to borrow money expires, BC already has an ever increasing number of mortgages in arrears and the highest number of consumer insolvencies in Canada. 


This is the sad reality Mr. Dalton and Miss Clark why don’t you just do the right thing and go back to a fairer tax policy, stop the lies  and misinformation, me and the 10s of thousands of citizens in the same financial boat as I find myself through no fault of my own are part of “EVERYONE”, we do exist no matter how inconvenient it is for you and your bad poorly thought out HST tax. 


The DBRS believes BC has the flexibility to manage either outcome without significantly altering its fiscal outlook.


Wayne Clark