X Marks the Spot

We're getting our money back.

Jim Flaherty went out back the House of Commons and picked the money tree, and now we're all rolling in it.

Another percentage point of the GST. That means, according to Global Insight chief economist Dale Orr, who was interviewed by The Globe and Mail, $13.66 per month. "It's a pizza a month," Orr told the Globe.

That's fine by me. Along with the first percentage point slash of the GST last year, that means I'm going to be eating an extra pizza every month, plus drinking an extra 12 discount beers, covered by my saving from the first cut. I'm pretty happy with that, and think it's time to give Stephen Harper a majority. He has proven he stands for what Canadians - and by Canadians I mean me - think is important. Beer and pizza.

Flaherty's mini-budget yesterday also cut income tax rates (corporate tax rates, too, which is great, but I don't own a corporation, and I highly doubt the corporation I work for will pass any of their savings along to me - they still have me working in front of a 10-year-old Mac, after all). The income tax rates, if you make $80,000 per year, will save you $223. I don't make $80,000 a year, though. I'll probably save about $140 per year. That's a lot of discount beer and pizza.