Harmonized Sales Tax Waiting To Screw Us All On Canada Day.

Alright, so I didn't post anything last weekend since I was busy with some stuff, but it's not the end of the world... since I'm writing one right now to make up for it. As mentioned in my previous post, it is getting warmer here in Toronto and people are indeed traveling.. at least to Toronto. This is a season to be dealing with many people wanting to check prices of things (+tax) with little to no english, which makes things really interesting, and wanting to either bang my head against a wall or their heads against it instead. It does get quite annoying when they look at me with a weird look when I give them the price including tax, which is clearly more than what's on the price tag (by 13%). Believe it when I say this: if it were up to me, products all over Canada would have price, tax amount, followed by the total of what you're paying on the price tag. Now, if that were to happen, that would be being quite honest as well as being efficient, but we that just wouldn't be a city in North America, now would it?
Talking about the tax also springs another question in the air: HST (Harmonized Sales Tax). Instead of dealing with both GST and PST, it simply combines both taxes. This means you still pay 13% tax minus the steps of paying 7% + 8%.
So if it makes things simple, why do 74% of Ontarians oppose it? Once HST hits Ontario (on July 1st, 2010), you will end up paying full 13% tax on things like your milk, food that costs less than $4 before tax, and many other things, chipping you away of those pennies here and there, which adds up in the long term. So there you have it, fellow Ontarians.
I do have a solution, though: move.