XPost: can.general, van.general, vic.general 
 From: tsanford@nf.sympatico.ca 
  
 "Steve Switzer"  wrote in message 
 news:d4594b9c.0402200940.60fecbe8@posting.google.com... 
 > > with the current budget has the provincial sales tax gone up for general 
 > > items ....higher than 7.5%   BC PST and they did increase it on booze 
 and 
 > > cigs but what else? 
 > > Yep BC liberals are using legalization and laws to kill people and 
 decrease 
 > > bc popolation..to save money its called legalized killing.....new form 
 of 
 > > dealing with stuff....attack the poor : disabled : seniors etc.... 
 > 
 > Seems to me that increasing tax on "booze and cigs" would be using 
 > laws to keep people alive, not kill them.  Shouldn't the poor and 
 > disabled not be using "booze and cigs" to the point that increased 
 > taxes on those items causes them to die? 
 > 
 > Also, please start using Victoria freenet rather than Shaw for your 
 > internet so we can stop hearing about how poor you are.  The $30 to 
 > $40 per month could go towards your required brain surgery. 
  
 Hi; Steve and Brock. Interesting topic about your BC taxes. 
 Here, Atlantic provinces, we pay 15% HST (that's provincial plus federal 
 combined.) on most things except food. 
 AFIK pack of 20 cigs. is now around $8 retail including all taxes. 
 A slightly amusing item about relative cost of cigarettes. A woman 
 travelling to Newfoundland on a late flight, to London which stops at St. 
 John's Newfoundland about midnight, went to sleep on the plane When she woke 
 was out over the Atlantic on the way to Heathrow London! She wanted the 
 plane to turn back, but it didn't of course. 
 After landing in London she had to hold over before returning. One of her 
 major complaints was that a pack of cigarettes at Heathrow, cost her $14 
 Canadian! 
 Cheers. Terry. 
 PS. A non smoking senior by the way. 
  
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