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By Student Gazette Sponsored by Paderno.

Following controversy over the Liberal government's announcement of the introduction of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST), to be implemented on April 1 2013, Premier Ghiz has passed a bill requiring all university courses to teach the benefits of bringing HST to Prince Edward Island. “I don’t understand why there is such a hoopla about the new legislation. As a government we have been steadfast in our initiative to get the best education for students here on Prince Edward Island," affirmed a politician who shall remain nameless (but his father was also a Premier named Ghiz). "This is just another way that we’re doing it, but this time we’re making sure that students are learning about how the HST matters.” “HST is incredibly beneficial,” explained a government spokesperson. “It’s a very efficient system. Essentially, where we were previously taxing you for taxing you, we will now stop doing that.” The Harmonized Sales Tax combines the previous federal tax, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) with a 1% lower Provincial Sales Tax (PST). This works to effectively lower the taxation from 15.5% to 14%, though none of us really know why they did it that way in the first place. “The 1.5% drop will be great.” explained the spokesperson. “Shampoo will be cheaper. Um, and magazines. Provided you buy them at the store, because if you subscribe to them they’ll actually be 9% more expensive." "Sure, the cost of some minor things will be increased. You know, like electricity, or new homes, or heating your new home with anything that isn’t a world-killing fossil fuel. But you can’t focus on the negatives." The spokesperson went on to note several positives to the introduction of the new tax.