Our online poll shows McGuinty makes costly blunder with BSTax

If The Bulletin’s online poll is any criterion, Dalton McGuinty has put his Ontario Liberal Party in danger in the next election. By falling in bed with Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, a former Harrisite Tory, McGuinty has agreed to hammer Ontarians with an 8% sales tax next year on everything we buy.

The poll question was: Should McGuinty be replaced for socking us with the “harmonized” GST?

The Blended Sales Tax (or Harmonized in some parlance) is already unpopular and it’s a year away from being imposed.

As the time grows nearer and Ontarians grow ever aware of the assault on their wallets McGuinty will impose, the already overwhelming disapproval can only grow.

If the poll results are any indication, the pro-Dalton faction today is equal (at 20.7%) to the pro-NDP faction and only slightly above the numbers who would vote for any other government (18.94%).

The Tories account for 34.6%. While big business loves the BSTax, the rest of us, who will be negatively affected, plainly hate the idea.