Revel in the joy of our grand tax holiday! There will be no sales tax on thousands of items, to boost your solstice spending power! Video games, so long as you don’t buy them the normal way. Some beverages, depending on size and ingredients. Pencil crayons, if they’re bought as part of a package that contains blue ones. What spectacular benevolence!
For clarification, this tax break is on a federal level.
The dwindling services you speak of are either provincial or municipal, but not federal.
The tax break has nothing to do with those services.
But I agree that we can do better, and I’d love to see “all in” prices displayed as a default.