{"id":554,"date":"2005-11-18T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=554"},"modified":"2005-11-18T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T19:39:00","slug":"gst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"GST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollara.ca\/Library\/News\/ScrapGST.html\">the Tories are considering a plan <\/a>to cut the GST by 2%. Very interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Chretien&#8217;s pollster, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollara.ca\/Library\/News\/ScrapGST.html\">Michael Marzolini<\/a>, has been crusading for this idea for years, and I presume he&#8217;s got some polling number to back him up on it. While I don&#8217;t really think it&#8217;s a good idea for the government to kiss away such a large source of revenue, but it&#8217;s hard to see how this wouldn&#8217;t be a winning strategy politically. Everyone hates the GST, it would counter the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/solberg-budget_14.html\">Solberg budget<\/a>, and it would remind people of Martin&#8217;s flip-flop on the GST way back when (<em>not that anyone really cares about that in my opinion<\/em>&#8230;). Plus, it would be the kind of constructive policy the Tories could hold up as proof that they&#8217;re not just campaigning against corruption.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, it could make balancing the books very difficult if they do win, but I suspect that&#8217;s a problem the Conservatives wouldn&#8217;t mind finding themselves with, after twelve years in opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the Tories are considering a plan to cut the GST by 2%. Very interesting&#8230; Chretien&#8217;s pollster, Michael Marzolini, has been crusading for this idea for years, and I presume he&#8217;s got some polling number to back him up on it. While I don&#8217;t really think it&#8217;s a good idea for the government to kiss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}