re national sales tax the movie atboyken iastate edu aaron t boyken writes here s a question what if instead of a true vat the federal government imposed a sales tax of say the tax would only be paid on retail sales thus not building up at all levels of production costs that are just passed on to consumers anyway and would only go to reducing the deficit i know that this would never happen but it seems a lot more palettable than a vat canada s gst is collected as a sales tax and is considered a vat funnily the previous hidden wholesale tax that it replaces was never referred to as a tax or people never paid mind to it thus the uproar when it was brought up front as the gst one party has actually campaigned on hiding the tax again the stated intent of the tories was to use the gst to write down our deficit unfortunately their legislation didn t include any mechanism for disbursing the collected funds in such a manner and the money is now sitting in escrow i don t know what is involved in releasing the funds but one dilemna is that the tories are not fiscal conservatives themselves though while taxing and spending they ve made moves to apply the breaks to a runaway locomotive by the end of this time the end of their second term years while they do have chances of getting a third term catching up in the polls to their more moderate slightly leftish pro business rivals the liberals as in euro uk the tories heir apparent for the leaders mantle has been termed a clone of hillary clinton gld je me souviens gary l dare gld columbia edu go winnipeg jets go gld cunixc bitnet selanne domi stanley
