> We also have the GST to contend with here. Recently, a women wrote a bestselling book on how to beat the GST, and that was her basic argument: buy fresh goods instead of pre-packed, chopped, whatever. There's no GST on fresh goods.
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> ding"don't go intot he chicken thing..."dong

Does your GST stand for "Goods and Services Tax?" We have a GST in Canada, and it does not apply to any grocery-bought foods, but other similar things like cleaning supples from the grocery store and fast foods have it added. When the GST was introduced, it created quite an uproar in Alberta because we were the only province with no provincial sales tax and so before the national GST was introduced, a price was a price, and you didn't have to do any calculations in your head to figure out what the "real" price was. Now, every province has a 7% GST added on top of their provincial sales tax. We've had it for long enough now that nobody in Alberta really complains about it anymore, but I am still annoyed that the Liberal government "forgot" about their campaign promise to abolish it. But, then, that's the nature of Canadian politics, it seems--the winners are those who make the campaign promises that sound the best, but nobody in the country actually expects them to stick to anything they say. *sigh*

Don "What's this I'm standing on? A soapbox? How did that get there?" Monkey