The HST is dead, but never under estimate the power of the elite to continue to try to change the public view on the results of the vote. The business community and the power politicians lost the vote, so what has been their reaction. According to a search of Google news, the reaction has been to reframe the results to doom and gloom in an attempt to get voters afraid because of their decision. I noticed this afternoon watching the mainstream media TV news that the ballot results were framed with the negative fallout from the vote being the last story in the news. Therefore, I suspect the framing of this story went something like this. First, we report the results of the vote, and then we show reaction from the politicians those who wanted to remove the HST. Secondly, we show the reaction of those who wanted to keep the HST, then we move to stories about the fallout this will mean to the province with reports from the social media about how terrible the results are to the people of BC.
It appears to me that the MSM is now moving to make the electorate afraid of will happen next because of our actions. So any downturn in the economy or cutback in services will be shown by the MSM to be because of the uncertainty caused by the HST vote. Watch for a movement over the next few months—which will come from the public—to either raise the PST or to tax more items.
Vancouver Sun - 24 minutes ago
VICTORIA - As the BC Liberals examine the detailed results from the referendum on the harmonized sales tax, they may find small consolation in the two dozen or so ridings that overcame the backlash and supported the tax. All but one have been reliably ...
Vancouver Sun - Andrew A. Duffy - 1 hour ago
British Columbians who think BC will snap back into the old provincial sales tax system following the death of the harmonized sales tax could be in for a surprise, according to some ...
After HST, what's next?
Vancouver Sun - Rob Shaw - 1 hour ago
BC Premier Christy Clark speaks after the Harmonized Sales Tax was defeated in a referendum, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. British Columbia will revert to its old provincial sales tax within a year and a ...
Voters Say HST Must Go
/A\ News Vancouver Island - 1 hour ago
VICTORIA - The HST is dead. British Columbia voters have had their say and they have said the Harmonized Sales Tax must go. It's days are numbered. More than 1.6 million BC voters cast a ballot in the HST referendum and more than half of them said yes ...
/A\ News Vancouver Island - 1 hour ago
ESQUIMALT — They won't be hanging up the nail-gun now at Downs Construction, but the Harmonized Sales Tax was kind to the company's 55 employees. "The first thing my wife and I did is calculate the savings the HST meant to us, and distributed those ...
Vancouver Sun - 3 hours ago
July 23, 2009: Premier Gordon Campbell announces that BC will harmonize the five per cent GST and seven per cent HST. Dec. 24, 2009: Former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm's Fight-HST group submits a proposal to scrap the HST. ...
Clark mum on whether HST defeat will spark early election
Vancouver Sun - Rob Shaw - 3 hours ago
BC Premier Christy Clark isn't saying whether the public's rejection of her government's harmonized sales tax is enough to plunge the province into an early election.. Two years of bumbling on the ...
Vancouver Sun - Lindsay Kines - 3 hours ago
Always a divisive issue, the decision by BC voters to scrap the harmonized sales tax exposed familiar fault lines among businesses Friday. A number of business leaders saw the return to ...
After the HST: What will happen to the referendum process in BC?
Globe and Mail - Sunny Dhillon - 3 hours ago
The HST referendum succeeded only because of a miscalculation by former premier Gordon Campbell, who bet he could convince British Columbians to keep the tax and get away with lowering the vote's requirements, say political science experts. ...
Vancouver Sun - Jonathan Fowlie - 4 hours ago
Workers at the HST drop-off centre gather the ballots, August 5, at Vancouver's City Square mall. BC voted to scrap the HST. VICTORIA — British Columbia's harmonized sales tax will be dead by ...
HST defeat brings back harder edge of BC's protest politics
Globe and Mail - 4 hours ago
For most of the past decade, British Columbia politics were almost unrecognizable. After almost 30 years of near constant political turmoil and larger-than-life politicians who seemed to revel in the province's zany, often unstable political culture, ...
HST vote a move in the wrong direction
Globe and Mail - 4 hours ago
After more than two years of public discussion, the results are in: BC will leave the HST behind as of March 31, 2013, and revert to the two tax PST-GST system. I was a volunteer advisor to the 'pro-HST' side of the referendum, and so it is perhaps not ...
The HST and the things we'll leave behind
Vancouver Sun (blog) - Derrick Penner - 4 hours ago
The people have spoken, the votes are in and government will respect the wishes of the electorate and repeal the HST to bring back the old PST and GST. I won't try to make an argument about whether this is good or bad, we have plenty of discussion ...
Government ready to move forward in face of HST defeat
The Province - Cassidy Olivier - 5 hours ago
Finance Minster Kevin Falcon speaks to the media on the results of the HST referendum at the BC legislature in Victoria, BC August 26, 2011. Fight-HST boss Bill Vander Zalm emerged into the ...
Surrey voters lead the charge against the HST
CTV.ca - 5 hours ago
The breakdown of votes for the harmonized sales tax shows a divide between Surrey voters and those who cast their ballots in the North Shore. Of the five ridings with the highest percentage voting to extinguish the tax, two were in Surrey. ...
Small business braces for double-trouble tax filing, but expect happy customers
Winnipeg Free Press - Tamsyn Burgmann - 6 hours ago
British Columbia Finance Minister Kevin Falcon responds to the results of the HST referendum at the BC Legislature in Victoria, BC, on Friday August 26, 2011. British Columbians have voted 54.73 percent in favour of abolishing the Harmonized Sales Tax ...
The Newspaper's View: Time to turn corner on the HST
Vancouver Sun - 6 hours ago
Premier Christy Clark deserves recognition for mounting an effort to save the HST despite the fact that when she took over as Premier it was an unpopular cause. Even though 45 per cent of British Columbians voted to maintain the harmonized sales tax ...
HST's defeat in BC shows danger of ruling by plebiscite
Globe and Mail - 6 hours ago
The people of British Columbia have passed up an excellent opportunity for their province's economy and thus for themselves, by voting against the Harmonized Sales Tax – a visible, neutral tax that favours productivity. BC will now have to wait for ...
HST foes jumping for joy but others predict trouble ahead
CTV.ca - Bethany Lindsay - 7 hours ago
Those in the restaurant and fitness industries are breathing a sigh of relief after learning that BC voters turned down the HST, but business leaders warn the results will hurt the province's economy. Since the harmonized sales tax came into effect ...
British Columbians reject HST in referendum
Toronto Star - Petti Fong - 7 hours ago
VANCOUVER—British Columbia residents have voted to ditch the HST, becoming the first jurisdiction in Canada to use a referendum to reject a government tax policy. Fifty-five per cent of BC voters rejected the harmonized sales tax, while just over 45 ...
National Post editorial board: Lessons from BC's HST debacle
National Post (blog) - Jason Payne - 7 hours ago
British Columbia's voters have spoken — the province's Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) will be repealed. In a popular referendum, the results of which were made public on Friday, 55% supported repealing the controversial tax. The political debacle leading ...
Christy Clark dodges election questions after HST loss
CBC.ca - 8 hours ago
Beginning of Story Content BC Premier Christy Clark refuses to rule out the possibility of a fall election following the failure of her Liberal government to win the HST referendum. Results of the binding referendum were released Friday and showed 55 ...
Ottawa Citizen - 9 hours ago
When, in 2009, the government of premier Gordon Campbell announced it would be introducing a Harmonized Sales Tax, this not long after an election in which it had promised not to do any such thing, many British Columbians were justifiably annoyed. ...
HST defeat 'probably catastrophic' to BC business
Vancouver Sun - Gordon Hamilton - 9 hours ago
John Allan, president of the BC Council of Forest Industries, said a poll of his members on the impact of the HST revealed that the tax saved the larger companies 'many millions a year. ...
CTV.ca - 9 hours ago
Elections BC Acting Chief Electoral Officer Craig James passes out the results of the Harmonized Sales Tax referendum to reporters at the BC Legislature n Victoria, BC, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. (Darryl Dyck / THE CANADIAN PRESS) Former premier Bill ...
Interactive graphic: HST vote by the numbers
Vancouver Sun - Chad Skelton - 9 hours ago
NOTE: Use the interactive chart above to see how BC voted in the HST referendum. The tabs at the top will guide you through different ways of looking at the numbers. Support for scrapping the HST was ...
British Columbia: The mother of all tax revolts
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 9 hours ago
Voters in British Columbia have rejected a 12 percent “harmonized sales tax” in a province-wide referendum, after a massive taxpayer revolt collected signatures to force a public vote on the issue. A total of 1.6 million voters cast ballots in the ...
British Columbia Votes To Kill Merged Sales Tax
Wall Street Journal - Nirmala Menon - 9 hours ago
(Adds comment from former premier in paragraph three, details of tax in paragraph four and comments from province's finance minister in paragraph five.) By Nirmala Menon Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES OTTAWA (Dow Jones)--Residents of British Columbia, ...
Bill Vander Zalm on the successful fight against the HST
Vancouver Sun - Laura Kane - 9 hours ago
Fight HST organizers Bill Vander Zalm (centre), Chris Delaney (right) and Bill Tieleman (left) celebrate at BC Supreme Court in Vancouver on Friday, August 26, 2011 after the HST referendum results ...
Would you like to see HST repealed in your province?
CBC.ca - 10 hours ago
By Community Team An HST protest outside the British Columbia Liberal Leadership Convention in February 2011. The tax will be repealed after a binding referendum. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press) After tallying the results of a binding referndum, ...
BC votes to scrap HST
National Post (blog) - 10 hours ago
VICTORIA — British Columbians have voted to scrap their Harmonized Sales Tax, Elections BC announced Friday. The results of the provincial referendum mean BC will now begin a transition back to its former provincial sales tax. ...
How Vancouver voted in the HST Referendum
Vancouver Sun (blog) - Jeff Lee - 10 hours ago
It's unclear yet what the fallout from the HST vote will be, but Friday's announcement that voters had scrapped the hated 12 per cent Harmonized Sales Tax likely means Premier Christy Clark will ..
BC voters kill the province's HST in referendum
CTV.ca - 10 hours ago
British Columbia Finance Minister Kevin Falcon is reflected in a television screen as he responds to the results of the HST referendum at the BC Legislature in Victoria, BC, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. (Darryl Dyck / THE CANADIAN PRESS) British Columbia ...
Wall Street Journal - Nirmala Menon - 11 hours ago
OTTAWA (Dow Jones)--Residents of British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province, have voted to reject an unpopular sales tax in a referendum, according to results released Friday. Elections BC said on its website that 54.73% of residents voted to ...
Editorial: It's time to end the uncertainty
Vancouver Sun - 11 hours ago
The message from the HST referendum is clear. What's needed now is an equally clear response from the government — one that goes beyond the plans to bring back the provincial sales tax by March 2013. The province's economy has been damaged by more than ...
It's going to be hard for Liberals to put the HST debacle behind them
Vancouver Sun - Vaughn Palmer - 11 hours ago
The ballots are in and the votes are almost all tallied, but questions still remain regarding what will be the political outcome post-HST vote. VICTORIA - The media alert issued by the BC ...
This approach leads the viewer to think the HST results are reported fairly while leaving the viewer with an uneasy feeling about the vote
A quick tour of Google news of 44 stories filed after the results of the vote were announced, only seven were positive while the rest focused on the negative results of the vote. It appears to me that the MSM is now moving to make the electorate afraid of will happen next because of our actions. So any downturn in the economy or cutback in services will be shown by the MSM to be because of the uncertainty caused by the HST vote. Watch for a movement over the next few months—which will come from the public—to either raise the PST or to tax more items.
We have to remind people that the HST was a tax shift away from corporations to the individual and was an unfair tax and that is why it was defeated.
Update August 28th: Harv Oberfeld on his blog, Keeping it Real has a slightly different take on the move to reframe the conversation on the GST , which has more details about where the Main Stream Media is going to take the conversation: I quote from Harv's blog:
If anyone think the war over the HST is over … you are wrong, wrong, wrong.
The government, big business and the very wealthy (look at the ridings that voted highest in favour of the tax!) will not end their ten-year campaign to shift more and more of the tax burden away from them and onto the shoulders of the middle class.
They … and their media propaganda mouthpieces … will now begin a major campaign to make everyone who voted “Yes” to extinguish the HST THINK they’ve made a huge mistake.
Here’s how it will go down. (In fact, it has already started.) For the rest of his views go here
Liberal-held ridings turned tide against HST Update August 28th: Harv Oberfeld on his blog, Keeping it Real has a slightly different take on the move to reframe the conversation on the GST , which has more details about where the Main Stream Media is going to take the conversation: I quote from Harv's blog:
If anyone think the war over the HST is over … you are wrong, wrong, wrong.
The government, big business and the very wealthy (look at the ridings that voted highest in favour of the tax!) will not end their ten-year campaign to shift more and more of the tax burden away from them and onto the shoulders of the middle class.
They … and their media propaganda mouthpieces … will now begin a major campaign to make everyone who voted “Yes” to extinguish the HST THINK they’ve made a huge mistake.
Here’s how it will go down. (In fact, it has already started.) For the rest of his views go here
Vancouver Sun - 24 minutes ago
VICTORIA - As the BC Liberals examine the detailed results from the referendum on the harmonized sales tax, they may find small consolation in the two dozen or so ridings that overcame the backlash and supported the tax. All but one have been reliably ...
Vancouver Sun - Andrew A. Duffy - 1 hour ago
British Columbians who think BC will snap back into the old provincial sales tax system following the death of the harmonized sales tax could be in for a surprise, according to some ...
After HST, what's next?
Vancouver Sun - Rob Shaw - 1 hour ago
BC Premier Christy Clark speaks after the Harmonized Sales Tax was defeated in a referendum, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. British Columbia will revert to its old provincial sales tax within a year and a ...
Voters Say HST Must Go
/A\ News Vancouver Island - 1 hour ago
VICTORIA - The HST is dead. British Columbia voters have had their say and they have said the Harmonized Sales Tax must go. It's days are numbered. More than 1.6 million BC voters cast a ballot in the HST referendum and more than half of them said yes ...
/A\ News Vancouver Island - 1 hour ago
ESQUIMALT — They won't be hanging up the nail-gun now at Downs Construction, but the Harmonized Sales Tax was kind to the company's 55 employees. "The first thing my wife and I did is calculate the savings the HST meant to us, and distributed those ...
Vancouver Sun - 3 hours ago
July 23, 2009: Premier Gordon Campbell announces that BC will harmonize the five per cent GST and seven per cent HST. Dec. 24, 2009: Former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm's Fight-HST group submits a proposal to scrap the HST. ...
Clark mum on whether HST defeat will spark early election
Vancouver Sun - Rob Shaw - 3 hours ago
BC Premier Christy Clark isn't saying whether the public's rejection of her government's harmonized sales tax is enough to plunge the province into an early election.. Two years of bumbling on the ...
Vancouver Sun - Lindsay Kines - 3 hours ago
Always a divisive issue, the decision by BC voters to scrap the harmonized sales tax exposed familiar fault lines among businesses Friday. A number of business leaders saw the return to ...
After the HST: What will happen to the referendum process in BC?
Globe and Mail - Sunny Dhillon - 3 hours ago
The HST referendum succeeded only because of a miscalculation by former premier Gordon Campbell, who bet he could convince British Columbians to keep the tax and get away with lowering the vote's requirements, say political science experts. ...
Vancouver Sun - Jonathan Fowlie - 4 hours ago
Workers at the HST drop-off centre gather the ballots, August 5, at Vancouver's City Square mall. BC voted to scrap the HST. VICTORIA — British Columbia's harmonized sales tax will be dead by ...
HST defeat brings back harder edge of BC's protest politics
Globe and Mail - 4 hours ago
For most of the past decade, British Columbia politics were almost unrecognizable. After almost 30 years of near constant political turmoil and larger-than-life politicians who seemed to revel in the province's zany, often unstable political culture, ...
HST vote a move in the wrong direction
Globe and Mail - 4 hours ago
After more than two years of public discussion, the results are in: BC will leave the HST behind as of March 31, 2013, and revert to the two tax PST-GST system. I was a volunteer advisor to the 'pro-HST' side of the referendum, and so it is perhaps not ...
The HST and the things we'll leave behind
Vancouver Sun (blog) - Derrick Penner - 4 hours ago
The people have spoken, the votes are in and government will respect the wishes of the electorate and repeal the HST to bring back the old PST and GST. I won't try to make an argument about whether this is good or bad, we have plenty of discussion ...
Government ready to move forward in face of HST defeat
The Province - Cassidy Olivier - 5 hours ago
Finance Minster Kevin Falcon speaks to the media on the results of the HST referendum at the BC legislature in Victoria, BC August 26, 2011. Fight-HST boss Bill Vander Zalm emerged into the ...
Surrey voters lead the charge against the HST
CTV.ca - 5 hours ago
The breakdown of votes for the harmonized sales tax shows a divide between Surrey voters and those who cast their ballots in the North Shore. Of the five ridings with the highest percentage voting to extinguish the tax, two were in Surrey. ...
Small business braces for double-trouble tax filing, but expect happy customers
Winnipeg Free Press - Tamsyn Burgmann - 6 hours ago
British Columbia Finance Minister Kevin Falcon responds to the results of the HST referendum at the BC Legislature in Victoria, BC, on Friday August 26, 2011. British Columbians have voted 54.73 percent in favour of abolishing the Harmonized Sales Tax ...
The Newspaper's View: Time to turn corner on the HST
Vancouver Sun - 6 hours ago
Premier Christy Clark deserves recognition for mounting an effort to save the HST despite the fact that when she took over as Premier it was an unpopular cause. Even though 45 per cent of British Columbians voted to maintain the harmonized sales tax ...
HST's defeat in BC shows danger of ruling by plebiscite
Globe and Mail - 6 hours ago
The people of British Columbia have passed up an excellent opportunity for their province's economy and thus for themselves, by voting against the Harmonized Sales Tax – a visible, neutral tax that favours productivity. BC will now have to wait for ...
HST foes jumping for joy but others predict trouble ahead
CTV.ca - Bethany Lindsay - 7 hours ago
Those in the restaurant and fitness industries are breathing a sigh of relief after learning that BC voters turned down the HST, but business leaders warn the results will hurt the province's economy. Since the harmonized sales tax came into effect ...
British Columbians reject HST in referendum
Toronto Star - Petti Fong - 7 hours ago
VANCOUVER—British Columbia residents have voted to ditch the HST, becoming the first jurisdiction in Canada to use a referendum to reject a government tax policy. Fifty-five per cent of BC voters rejected the harmonized sales tax, while just over 45 ...
National Post editorial board: Lessons from BC's HST debacle
National Post (blog) - Jason Payne - 7 hours ago
British Columbia's voters have spoken — the province's Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) will be repealed. In a popular referendum, the results of which were made public on Friday, 55% supported repealing the controversial tax. The political debacle leading ...
Christy Clark dodges election questions after HST loss
CBC.ca - 8 hours ago
Beginning of Story Content BC Premier Christy Clark refuses to rule out the possibility of a fall election following the failure of her Liberal government to win the HST referendum. Results of the binding referendum were released Friday and showed 55 ...
Ottawa Citizen - 9 hours ago
When, in 2009, the government of premier Gordon Campbell announced it would be introducing a Harmonized Sales Tax, this not long after an election in which it had promised not to do any such thing, many British Columbians were justifiably annoyed. ...
HST defeat 'probably catastrophic' to BC business
Vancouver Sun - Gordon Hamilton - 9 hours ago
John Allan, president of the BC Council of Forest Industries, said a poll of his members on the impact of the HST revealed that the tax saved the larger companies 'many millions a year. ...
CTV.ca - 9 hours ago
Elections BC Acting Chief Electoral Officer Craig James passes out the results of the Harmonized Sales Tax referendum to reporters at the BC Legislature n Victoria, BC, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. (Darryl Dyck / THE CANADIAN PRESS) Former premier Bill ...
Interactive graphic: HST vote by the numbers
Vancouver Sun - Chad Skelton - 9 hours ago
NOTE: Use the interactive chart above to see how BC voted in the HST referendum. The tabs at the top will guide you through different ways of looking at the numbers. Support for scrapping the HST was ...
British Columbia: The mother of all tax revolts
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 9 hours ago
Voters in British Columbia have rejected a 12 percent “harmonized sales tax” in a province-wide referendum, after a massive taxpayer revolt collected signatures to force a public vote on the issue. A total of 1.6 million voters cast ballots in the ...
British Columbia Votes To Kill Merged Sales Tax
Wall Street Journal - Nirmala Menon - 9 hours ago
(Adds comment from former premier in paragraph three, details of tax in paragraph four and comments from province's finance minister in paragraph five.) By Nirmala Menon Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES OTTAWA (Dow Jones)--Residents of British Columbia, ...
Bill Vander Zalm on the successful fight against the HST
Vancouver Sun - Laura Kane - 9 hours ago
Fight HST organizers Bill Vander Zalm (centre), Chris Delaney (right) and Bill Tieleman (left) celebrate at BC Supreme Court in Vancouver on Friday, August 26, 2011 after the HST referendum results ...
Would you like to see HST repealed in your province?
CBC.ca - 10 hours ago
By Community Team An HST protest outside the British Columbia Liberal Leadership Convention in February 2011. The tax will be repealed after a binding referendum. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press) After tallying the results of a binding referndum, ...
BC votes to scrap HST
National Post (blog) - 10 hours ago
VICTORIA — British Columbians have voted to scrap their Harmonized Sales Tax, Elections BC announced Friday. The results of the provincial referendum mean BC will now begin a transition back to its former provincial sales tax. ...
How Vancouver voted in the HST Referendum
Vancouver Sun (blog) - Jeff Lee - 10 hours ago
It's unclear yet what the fallout from the HST vote will be, but Friday's announcement that voters had scrapped the hated 12 per cent Harmonized Sales Tax likely means Premier Christy Clark will ..
BC voters kill the province's HST in referendum
CTV.ca - 10 hours ago
British Columbia Finance Minister Kevin Falcon is reflected in a television screen as he responds to the results of the HST referendum at the BC Legislature in Victoria, BC, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. (Darryl Dyck / THE CANADIAN PRESS) British Columbia ...
Wall Street Journal - Nirmala Menon - 11 hours ago
OTTAWA (Dow Jones)--Residents of British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province, have voted to reject an unpopular sales tax in a referendum, according to results released Friday. Elections BC said on its website that 54.73% of residents voted to ...
Editorial: It's time to end the uncertainty
Vancouver Sun - 11 hours ago
The message from the HST referendum is clear. What's needed now is an equally clear response from the government — one that goes beyond the plans to bring back the provincial sales tax by March 2013. The province's economy has been damaged by more than ...
It's going to be hard for Liberals to put the HST debacle behind them
Vancouver Sun - Vaughn Palmer - 11 hours ago
The ballots are in and the votes are almost all tallied, but questions still remain regarding what will be the political outcome post-HST vote. VICTORIA - The media alert issued by the BC ...
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