{"id":1351,"date":"2010-03-28T22:44:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T02:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2010-03-28T22:44:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T02:44:51","slug":"mcguintys-car-one-forward-gear-three-reverse-gears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"McGuinty&#039;s Car &#8211; One Forward Gear, Three Reverse Gears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I will not raise taxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then he brought in the health premium and cut health spending on numerous services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No NEW Taxes&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then he proposed the HST, which albeit a merger of the PST and GST, will become the largest single tax grab in Ontario history once all is said and done.<\/p>\n<p>And then we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariopc.com\/news-releases\/mcguinty-quietly-cancels-legislative-review-of-scandal-plagued-lhins\/\" target=\"_blank\">legal obligations being avoided<\/a> and buried 164 pages into the budget.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the Local Health Systems Integration Act, 2006, the McGuinty Government is legally required to subject the LHINs to a full public legislative review by March 28, 2010. Rather than be forced to subject the LHINs to public scrutiny, the McGuinty Liberals have instead buried a provision on page 164 of the Budget that would eliminate the obligation to hold this review.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are we getting OfficiallyScrewed?  You Betcha.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T MPP Lisa MacLeod<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I will not raise taxes.&#8221; And then he brought in the health premium and cut health spending on numerous services. &#8220;No NEW Taxes&#8221; And then he proposed the HST, which albeit a merger of the PST and GST, will become the largest single tax grab in Ontario history once all is said and done. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,44,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-officiallyscrewed","category-politics-provincial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}