After reading Cole Routtenberg’s blog, it had made me to rethink about the existence of HST.

Personally, i never liked HST. After Gorden Campbell release the use of HST, everything suddenly became so expensive! Watching a movie, having dinner at a restaurant, grocery shopping…etc, the 13% is always there. Especially if you are going to a restaurant, plus 10% tips money, the 23% additional charge besides the food seems just way too much!

However, after reading Cole’s post, I realized that i have never looked at HST from a bigger point of view. Because of HST, the government had raised more tax money for health care and other social expenditure. Also, because of HST, small business owner could apply for more tax return at the end of each year, thus increase their revenue.

Also, the government had promised to decrease HST to 10% if people vote to keep the HST. This way, HST would be smaller than the total of GST and PST!

So, why not? I would vote to keep the HST if we can have another chance.