{"id":1353,"date":"2010-04-01T07:33:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2010-04-01T07:33:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:33:13","slug":"nova-scotia-set-to-follow-quebecs-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia Set To Follow Quebec&#039;s Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday April 6th, the NDP government of Nova Scotia <a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/NovaScotia\/1174884.html\" target=\"_blank\">is likely to raise their provincial sales tax<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolitic.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/31\/surprise-surprise-the-ndp-will-raise-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Politic<\/a>&#8216;s Mark Peters points this out in comments to our post on <a href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1352\" target=\"_blank\">Quebec Liberals raising sales taxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tie in the expectation of an <a href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1350\" target=\"_blank\">American consumption tax<\/a> (i.e. a federal sales tax) and we clearly have the answer from far left of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal &#8220;deep thinkers&#8221; in Montreal were just waxing poetic on a carbon tax and thinking &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chuckercanuck.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/liberal-failure-and-revenge-of-dion.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maybe if we smother it in sausage gravy, they scheme, it will be tasty.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder we all don&#8217;t just throw our hands in the air and jump on board the sausage gravy train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday April 6th, the NDP government of Nova Scotia is likely to raise their provincial sales tax. The Politic&#8216;s Mark Peters points this out in comments to our post on Quebec Liberals raising sales taxes. Tie in the expectation of an American consumption tax (i.e. a federal sales tax) and we clearly have the [&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":[11,52,56,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-by-taxes","category-politics-federal","category-politics-provincial","category-quotalicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","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=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}