Reply #3: I'm sure you're right about the abortion angle.

[Lautremont]

It's creepy and scary and fully consistent with every other reform angle.

I'm not convinced that reducing the GST even appears to be the right thing to do w/r/t helping the poor, though. The "working poor" pay surprisingly high income taxes, though, often because they fill out the forms themselves and don't know what accountants know. Working to cut taxes to the lower income segment seems to me a better approach to improving their living standards.

Cutting two percent off the GST is going to save a ha'penny per loaf of bread or an eighth of a cent on a box of KD, for a total of perhaps a few hundred dollars a year, maximum; or, on the other hand, will save the rich person fifteen hundred bucks when they buy a Maserati. Who benefits more?

You're also dead on about the inconsistencies of the Liberals and the Reform on the GST matter. Talk about your flip-floppers.