Flat Tax?

Robert MacDiarmid rmacdiar at kingston.net
Tue Feb 2 15:13:31 PST 1999



>Dear Doug,
>Didn't a VAT destroy the New Democratic Party in Ontario, Canada?
>Your email pal,
>Tom L.

They destroyed themselves, but not through introducing a VAT (that's was a federal government initiative.) They forced through a 'Consensual' budget-cutting exercise on public sector unions, opening contracts etc and lost a lot of union support, while other measures alienated most social movements that had supported them. A steady stream of right wing attacks from the business sector, even as the NDP swung further to the centre, also had an affect.



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