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	<title>Comments on: On The HST</title>
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		<title>By: K</title>
		<link>http://silverstreaked.net/blog/2010/07/19/on-the-hst/comment-page-1/#comment-937</link>
		<dc:creator>K</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know, I haven&#039;t really noticed the HST here, but that&#039;s probably because I still do the bulk of my buying in Alberta. I&#039;ve heard a great deal of arguments against it though. You&#039;ll have to let me know what it&#039;s like to live with it completely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, I haven&#8217;t really noticed the HST here, but that&#8217;s probably because I still do the bulk of my buying in Alberta. I&#8217;ve heard a great deal of arguments against it though. You&#8217;ll have to let me know what it&#8217;s like to live with it completely.</p>
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		<title>By: tamara</title>
		<link>http://silverstreaked.net/blog/2010/07/19/on-the-hst/comment-page-1/#comment-936</link>
		<dc:creator>tamara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the clarification, Grahame! I appreciate your taking the time to write in. I agree that Ontario needs a boost, but I&#039;d like to see some of that extra money go towards lowering post-secondary tuition fees as well through further investment in the colleges and universities. More jobs may be created, but if the number of people becoming qualified for those jobs drops (due to prohibitively high tuition), they will not be filled. 

Ontario university tuition is painfully high, and while I seem to be one of the fortunate few who will not be graduating with student loans, the rest of the current students will be looking at a minimum debt of $28,000 (assuming on average, $7000/yr (tuition only), for a domestic student in a 4-year undergraduate program) when they graduate. Yes, we will have plenty of opportunities when we graduate, but this decreases in importance when half of every paycheque will be lost to our loans anyway, and I would like to see something done about this first. 

Thank you again for posting!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the clarification, Grahame! I appreciate your taking the time to write in. I agree that Ontario needs a boost, but I&#8217;d like to see some of that extra money go towards lowering post-secondary tuition fees as well through further investment in the colleges and universities. More jobs may be created, but if the number of people becoming qualified for those jobs drops (due to prohibitively high tuition), they will not be filled. </p>
<p>Ontario university tuition is painfully high, and while I seem to be one of the fortunate few who will not be graduating with student loans, the rest of the current students will be looking at a minimum debt of $28,000 (assuming on average, $7000/yr (tuition only), for a domestic student in a 4-year undergraduate program) when they graduate. Yes, we will have plenty of opportunities when we graduate, but this decreases in importance when half of every paycheque will be lost to our loans anyway, and I would like to see something done about this first. </p>
<p>Thank you again for posting!</p>
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		<title>By: Grahame Rivers</title>
		<link>http://silverstreaked.net/blog/2010/07/19/on-the-hst/comment-page-1/#comment-935</link>
		<dc:creator>Grahame Rivers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, saw your post on the HST. Just to clarify, your being charged GST + PST on the portion of you bill before the HST came into effect, so before july 1st. You are being charged HST on the portion of the bill after July 1st. The rate of taxation see no change and your service will no cost you more.

Your next bill should only have HST on it.

This is about creating jobs so that when students like yourself graduate they will have opportunity. A recent report by economist Jack Mintz confirms that Ontario needs to reform its tax system to create jobs and put Ontario back on its feet. It says, as a result of the HST, within 10 years Ontario will see, an estimated 591,000 additional new jobs, increased capital investment of $47 billion and increased overall annual worker incomes of up to 8.8 per cent, or    $29.4billion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, saw your post on the HST. Just to clarify, your being charged GST + PST on the portion of you bill before the HST came into effect, so before july 1st. You are being charged HST on the portion of the bill after July 1st. The rate of taxation see no change and your service will no cost you more.</p>
<p>Your next bill should only have HST on it.</p>
<p>This is about creating jobs so that when students like yourself graduate they will have opportunity. A recent report by economist Jack Mintz confirms that Ontario needs to reform its tax system to create jobs and put Ontario back on its feet. It says, as a result of the HST, within 10 years Ontario will see, an estimated 591,000 additional new jobs, increased capital investment of $47 billion and increased overall annual worker incomes of up to 8.8 per cent, or    $29.4billion.</p>
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