Example, Greed/necessity: If you are running a company and selling a product while making a small profit selling it for $100. When HST came in it in theory will eventually lower the cost of the item from your supplier that you are selling for $100. So that item may cost you 10% less (for arguments sake). You need/want that extra 10% per sale to keep your life style or afford that new something so you don’t lower your price, you keep the new found money for profit (or to pay the increased utility costs). Now you make your normal profit + the new found profit since you supplier sells for less (in a perfect world). Prices won’t go down, prices won’t slow down when increasing, people will keep the money as profit (corporations especially).

From the job creation side of things…. its all about profits again. Why would a company producing X quantity of goods for Y dollars hire more people to make the same X quantity of goods? They won’t. They want the profits.

Just my take on HST. I may be misinformed.