“So how do you give a billion back to people and to whom do you want to give it? We looked at it and I thought we should focus it on the middle class first of all, and MSP is the easiest instrument by which to deliver that to the middle class, and it was also the biggest tax cut we could deliver to people.” Clark’s budget Tuesday called for a 50 per cent cut to MSP premiums for two million households that earn less than $120,000 annually, saving each up to $900 a year. But the change doesn’t come into effect until Jan. 1, 2018 — eight months after May’s provincial election, sparking questions on why she didn’t instead cut the provincial sales tax immediately.
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