TORONTO - Ontario's opposition parties say the province's budget is "worthless" and will only hurt average citizens struggling during a recession.
The budget, announced today, includes a harmonized sales tax.
Both the Progressive Conservatives and the NDP say that will end up costing residents dearly because it will extend the PST to a range of necessities, such as home heating oil and gasoline.
A number of income tax cuts and property and sales tax credits were also announced, but Interim Progressive Conservative Leader Bob Runciman says it's simply a tax shift.
Runciman says a plan to give families one-thousand dollars and individuals 300 dollars in three cash payments to offset the sales tax change is just taking money from one pocket and putting it in the other.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says her party will be voting against the budget.
She says it doesn't help Ontario families or workers and she is also critical of corporate tax cuts.
