Is the Province’s finance minister that stupid?  Sure, I can see $2 Billion, given $1.6 Billion has to repay the bribe from Herr Harper, but what is the other Billion for? Tipsy Gordon’s wine bill? Or is part of it for Brown Paper Bag Mulroney?

On that bribe money that has to be repaid. Has the great mental geniuses in the Finance department even considered asking for payments from Herr Harper and his gang of bullies?

I mean isn’t that what Real Business people do, when they have to pay back a huge sum of money? They either get a loan, which is repaid by regular monthly payments, or they arrange a repayment schedule with the one the owe the money to. 

So is there some reason that can’t be done with the $1.6 Billion?

It is strange, that something that took only a few weeks to negotiate, implement, while dismantling the PST, now will take well over a year to reinstate. The supposed target date for bringing back the PST is set for March 2013.  ( you do the math, this is August 2011. seems like 17 months to me )

Ya know, it is amazing at how Politicians think that the average voter is just a stupid mindless yob. I mean they postpone things like a referendum, to try and give themselves some breathing space. They negotiate deals that change our tax system, in backrooms, almost overnight, then tell us it’ll cost billions to bring back, and over a year and a half to boot.

Think about it.

Do you really negotiate something like a harmonizing a tax within weeks and more than that, just right after a Provincial election? Hell, even during that very election, Tipsy Gordon and his Finance Minister were asked about that, and said no, nothing was in the works or being discussed.

So, IF we assume they were telling the truth, then it happened in just weeks.

The problem with our elected leaders, of all parties, is they get hung up on ego. Once the get to power, they assume they can do whatever they want, mainly because us local yokels are just too dumb to figure things out. Like telling us suddenly that it will cost $3 Billion to revert back to the PST.  Funny, if they could know that in just a day after the vote, why didn’t they know it before? And if they did, why didn’t they use that number in their campaign to convince voters to support the Harper Stealing Tax?

Course, it would be interesting to find out, just what does that figure involve? Not like we will be told, mainly because well, we are just too dumb to understand all this high finance bullshit.

Then too, IF it really is going to take that long, perhaps our Premier might want to consider pushing the date further back? After all, doesn’t the agreement run out in 2014 or something? If it does, then hey, let’s not revert back till then, and hey, we wouldn’t have to pay back the bribe money, now would we?

Course it would require our Premier to actually know when the deal expires, and well, I guess she’s been too busy figuring out when to call the Provincial election, to bother with such details. Mind you, I’d have expected our finance Minister to know.

Be interesting to see Bill Vander Zalm become a leader of a some political party again. I mean, he actually did rally the people behind the get rid of the Harper Stealing Tax, and WON TOO!

Maybe he should be our next Premier again?