Tom Says: “Stephen Harper… What a guy!”
I didn’t realize until this past weekend just how much mony prime minister stephen harper has put in my pocket as a result of that HUGE reduction of one cent in the GST.
Saturday morning passed, my wife Diana and I went through one of the local Tim Hortons drive thrus. The order was: Alarge double-double for my son, a medium tea with milk for my wife and a medium coffee black for me.
Total price: $4.11 Having done this many times with the same order, the old price used to be $4.15. My mathematic skills quickly concluded Mr. Harper’s largesse resulted in a four cent saving on that purchase alone. I immediately wondered how much would this same process save me in one year?
If I ordered the same order at Tim Horton’s for 365 days, the total bill would come to $1,500.15
So, by spending more than 15-hundred dollars for tea and coffee in one year — I could save a whopping $14.60
This reduction comes after paying thousands of dollars in income tax, hundreds of dollars in gasoline tax, countless dollars in liquour and hundreds of dollars in tobacco tax. Add to this money collected from us for purchases in the United States and all the hundreds and maybe thousands of countless other tax we never see or even think about day-in and day-out.
It’s taken me quite a while to figure out where to spend this $14.60, but a large package of cigarettes and two Bic lighters has taken care of it.
Since a large amount of the cost of the cigarettes is federal government tax, the prime minister got most of my money back that I was willing to save to add to the billions and billions that over 33-million Canadians have already payed.
What a deal, Thank-you Mr. Harper!
I’m Tom Young.