John:

Our "well informed" electorate was conned by a previous premier that was a failure as a premier (people have short political memories).

There are many crying about taxes being too high, and they're first ones to bitch when the potholes in the road don't get fixed. Life doesn't seem to be a free lunch. Democracy has it's own set of weaknesses.

We called it the HST, and it was 12 percent, and it wasn't really a problem in day to day life. Every invoice I sent out for engineering services had the 12% added on, and not one client (over 150 invoices) complained about the tax. Now the current gov't will have to scramble to contain the deficit - or introduce another tax.

Glenn