April 26, 2010 | Rants

Ben Franklin once opined “All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”

And perhaps as a corollary to this, referring to that first group anyway, “In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.”

The Ontario Government is now bringing in the HST, not the Hubble Space Telescope, but a tax that is equally beyond the mesosphere in terms of sticking it to ordinary citizens.

We won’t bore you with the minutiae of provincial Canadian politics, but let’s just say that this ’Harmonized Sales Tax’ is certain to cause dischord and ensure that when the next legislative roll call takes place, there will be fewer Liberals saying ‘present’.

Here is an ad taken out in a local newspaper by a funeral home, urging the hypochondriacal, and those about to be passed through the international customs gates of life, to book now and avoid paying an additional 8% on burial costs. Yes, we are now literally being taxed to death.