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I’m sick and tired of the government sticking its grubby hands in my pockets. Every day they come up with some new way to nickel-and-dime me, and the rest of us.
In Ontario, we’ve got this new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) set to come in this summer. Soon we’ll be holding the bag and paying 13 per cent tax on lots of stuff that we used to only pay five per cent. All because some fancy pants politician clapped his hands and made it so.
‘Harmonized’ makes it sounds like these taxes go together like peanut butter and jelly. The two taxes, the GST and the PST, will now be in harmony. Isn’t that nice? Sounds like hooey to me. Sounds like something my tree-hugging son Robbie would’ve named it or that airy-fairy horse psychic lady who also blogs for The Sportsman — she’s all into peace and harmony and the rest of that free-spirit crap. Hope she likes trying to charge people eight per cent more to get their horse’s head read. Good luck to you, sweetie.
She’s also probably a big fan of the government’s mandatory Emissions Tests for older vehicles. She just loves the cleansing of toxins and the release of negative energy so it’s right up her alley. Well, guess how my 1987 Grand Marquis just did on its e-test? That’s right, not so good. Let’s see how she likes it when her tenement-on-wheels ‘harmony’ van has to take the test.
I’m sorry. I know I shouldn’t take out my frustrations out on such a nice, clueless lady when it’s really Uncle Sam — or whatever the hell we call him in Canada — that really gets my goat.
It’s going to cost me another couple hundred bucks to get my car up to snuff and back on the road, just so I can drive myself downtown to pay another fee to renew my driver’s license and health card. Oh, and I might as well fork over the money for Patches’ dog tags while I’m at it, even though Patches hasn’t left our yard since 1997.
And for what? The government doesn’t do much of anything for me. I pay my fair share of property tax, but they’ve done nothing to get rid of the hophead teenagers that hang out in the public park near my house.
I can tell you for a fact that those kids are putting their own harmful emissions into the air every night and they damn sure aren’t being fined by the government because of it.
Harmony, Sharmony.
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