Another screw up added to the seemingly unending line of HST gaffes committed by BC Liberal finance minister Colin Hansen (see here, here, here and here) is his latest lame attempt to sell BC taxpayers on the HST using their own money to do it.
When asked by the media, Hansen says that he has no idea how much this 3 week advertising blitz will cost:
“We haven’t costed out all the elements of it yet, but we are working within our existing government budgets”
A major organizer for the anti-HST petition, Bill Tieleman, easily slaps Hansen down:
“If Finance Minister Colin Hansen doesn’t know the cost of his own ministry’s ads and yet wants to purport to be an expert on how the HST is going to benefit, he has no credibility on this”
July 7, 2010 at 6:34 PM
Bill Tieleman didn’t rebut anything. That’s just silly. Costing out an ad campaign has nothing to do with figuring out the benefits of the thing you’re advertising in that campaign.
This is just more off topic points from the anti-HST crowd that just doesn’t seem to understand economics. There is only criticism of the HST that holds any water. That is namely that BC Liberals suddenly introduced the HST days after winning an election in which they’d said they’d had no plans to introduce it. We might wonder next if they’ll be asking what the definition of “is” is.
But that’s not even an intelligent criticism of the HST, it’s a criticism of the BC Liberal party.