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Make HST Revenue Neutral:
Scrap Ontario's Health Premium

Freedom Party releases fifth 2011 provincial election plank in as many weeks


November 9, 2010 Toronto - The HST's $3B "tax grab" should be eliminated by scrapping the almost $3B Ontario Health Premium. So says a 2011 election plank issued today by Freedom Party of Ontario. The plank is being promoted with a new pre-election video ad critical of Dalton McGuinty's two most high profile broken tax promises.

"Dalton McGuinty and the Liberals promised the HST would be revenue neutral", says Freedom Party leader Paul McKeever. "That was foreseeably false. But the Progressive Conservatives' leftist musings about reducing or scrapping the HST are economically toxic. If we eliminated the HST, a greater percentage of Ontario's revenues would come from the taxation of production; from penalizing production in the province. The ethical and economical approach is to scrap taxes on production before even considering reductions to taxes on consumption. The Health Premium is the perfect target. It is an income tax that brings in $2.9B annually, which is almost equal to the $3B tax grab introduced by the HST. By entirely eliminating the Health Premium, Ontario can reverse two of Mr. McGuinty's broken tax promises: it can kill two birds with one stone. Moreover, by eliminating the Health Premium, all associated Health Premium collection costs would be eliminated. A Freedom government will eliminate Ontario's Health Premium, and make the HST revenue neutral, as was promised."

Freedom Party has been releasing 2011 election planks since early October. A complete list of the planks released so far can be viewed here. Freedom Party has also released a number of pre-election video ads to promote its planks. They all can be viewed on Freedom Party's youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/fpontario .


For further details, contact:

Paul McKeever, Leader - Freedom Party of Ontario

Office: 106 Stevenson Road South, Oshawa, Ontario L1J 5M1; Tel: 905-721-9772

e-mail: pmckeever@freedomparty.on.ca



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