HST is not a new tax? Ask your subscribers

It's curious, that Tony Wanless, a blogger for BC Business magazine's website, takes a poke at opponents of the HST and suggests that they're too thick to understand that it's not a new tax, but rather a simple blending of the old provincial retail tax and the goods and services tax that most people pay anyway. The reason it's curious is that, in BC (and Ontario) it IS a new tax on some goods --