To the editor:
Whether it's the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST), or the Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Provincial Sales Tax (PST), it is still tax.
The real crime is what is taxed, not how it's taxed.
All the efforts and energy defeating the HST in favour of GST/PST has gained us nothing. In fact, it may have cost the British Columbia taxpayers huge amounts to switch back
The enormous effort to defeat the HST would have been better spent on fighting to eliminate all sales tax on food, medicines, and any other products ingested by humans that are by design or natural for the purposes of sustaining life.
Taxing products that we ingest is like taxing the air we breathe. How sad it is that we have allowed this to happen.
If we are going to fight against a tax, it should be to stop the taxing of any foods, drinks, or medicines whether they are deemed healthy or not, and whether we buy just one or a dozen.
This is where the real fight should have been.
Ken Thomas
100 Mile House
