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HST blamed for cost of living hike in Ottawa
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Date: Friday Aug. 20, 2010 11:46 AM ET
The Harmonized Sales Tax is being blamed for a big jump in the cost of living in Ontario and some other parts of the country. In Ottawa, the inflation rate jumped from 1.7 per cent to 3 per cent.
The hike corresponds with the introduction of the controversial HST, which the Ontario government promised would bring the price down on many products.
Only clothing and footwear registed a decrease.
Nationally, the rate jumped a little less than expected from one per cent to 1.8 per cent.
Energy and electricity prices were up between eight and 10 per cent.
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This is just wrong but if I were to send something to the politicians I would have sent the brain!
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Ian
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Doug
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Same old crap.
Bring back Mike Harris!
Reener
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Roger
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Elias Nasrallah
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Krista
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Our daycare raised it's charges $2 a day to cover their additional costs due to HST, our athletic membership costs have gone up as they try and cover the costs of their utilities, our utilites are hitting us harder, and our average spend on day to day things has increased.
I'm waiting to see the benefit here, but I'm not holding my breath.
Sadly, this story won't hit the national news, it will be overshadowed by the one up on the CTV main page right now that says the overall inflation was less than the econmists expected.
karen l.
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McGuinty is driving up the costs of living with his HST and Eco tax, but wages aren’t keeping pace. These taxes are putting a big dent in family budgets, and forcing people out of their homes.
Dalton went on radio yesterday bragging Ontario has cleaner, greener more efficient energy!
The guy has no idea how to
run a business...giving taxes raised from us to pay the windmill and solar "farmers" only caused hydro rates to go
up by 30% !
Dave Clarke Ottawa
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Donnie Brasco
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Bubba gives McGuinty his notice - YOU'RE FIRED
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Hey Dalton, better spruce up your resume, this is 14 months notice that you are fired! You mess with us, steal our money, lie to us, WE REMEMBER that for a long long time.
You are history pal!
Freddie
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Rose
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Jim
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Parallax Abstraction
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As far as I'm concerned, anyone who votes him in again in the next election loses the right to complain about taxes. I'm by no means a man of the provincial Conservatives either but McGuinty's arrogance and fiscal ineptitude is killing the province's prospects while also taking more of our money. He needs to go.