"For a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." Winston Churchill.
People don't like the massive jump in taxes and the creation of new fees and charges like the levy. They pass this around as their statement of protest.
Three things to know about the quote, besides the fact that Cathy Bennett used it in the budget debate last year to argue against a hike in the HST:
