{"id":1111,"date":"2010-06-27T07:54:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T11:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2010-06-27T07:56:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T11:56:20","slug":"july-1-welcome-to-the-harmonized-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"July 1: Welcome to the Harmonized Sales Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/spreadthewealth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1112\" title=\"spreadthewealth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/spreadthewealth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/spreadthewealth.jpg 316w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/spreadthewealth-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Brace yourself\u00a0(again) taxpayers.\u00a0 Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty wants to sell the HST\u00a0as\u00a0\u201cstrong medicine\u201d for an economy that needs fixing.\u00a0<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0Well, i<\/span>t appears he\u2019s traded in his snake oil and fancies himself a medicine man now\u2026. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">This new tax is designed to take even more money from Ontarians\u2019 pockets to help pay for our government\u2019s grand designs and Ontario\u2019s ever-growing bureaucracy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Call it what it is. It\u2019ll be hard to swallow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Brace yourself\u00a0(again) taxpayers.\u00a0 Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty wants to sell the HST\u00a0as\u00a0\u201cstrong medicine\u201d for an economy that needs fixing.\u00a0\u00a0Well, it appears he\u2019s traded in his snake oil and fancies himself a medicine man now\u2026. \u00a0 This new tax is designed to take even more money from Ontarians\u2019 pockets to help pay for our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}