Ont. Liberals screwed up: Not as badly as B.C. did back in September, when the 15% tax came into play.  Make no mistake: it was targeted at ```Foreign buyers``--not a single word, not a wiff of ``speculators``, foreign or local.  Lots of that language around Ontario`s move. So, yeah, screwed up...but not as bad.  

It`s understandable, though.  Public perception was--still is, to some extent (see posts by Dr. Demento and richmondanon)--that the off-shore ``dirty money`` bunch (``hundreds every month`` says one post) is to blame so, what the heck, election coming up, and so yeah, keep the masses appeased; provincial government can take a little more tax revenue (very little more.)  

Kinda like 1903, when Ottawa raised the Chinese head tax to $500 per person --oh, and here you go, B.C. (said PM Laurier), take 50% off the top, okay?  (What many in B.C. wanted was NO Chinese immigrants at all.) Man, we think we`ve left that silly stuff behind...but, no.  Back again `by popular demand.`