The Harmonized Sales Tax in Ontario and BC will only certainly lead to an increase in prices for many products and services that are currently PST exempt.

This tax increase will be especially hard on seniors, students and low income earners who are on fixed incomes and will simply be faced with an increase in prices.

We can't afford new taxes or higher taxes no matter how you frame it , whether you call them outright tax increases or try and make it sound less destructive by calling them a 'Harmonized Sales Tax'.

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