“how liquor distribution in B.C. can be delivered”

in a modernized and cost-effective manner.

That will be easy, friends of the fiberals will lower the pay to minimum, say they have lowered distribution costs and then skim off the top on the backs of the workers. The fiberal way.

Check with the private sector in Arizona. 1.75L of Seagram’s crown royal sells for $75.00 plus in PG and $35.00 for the same size bottle in Costco in Phoenix. Same deal for wines and beer. Seems south of the border they must be a lot more efficient as the prices are 50% lower than the BC prices, or is it just the greedy liberals stiffing it to the working class.

seamutt has it exactly right

Most of the price difference between PG and Phoenix is taxes. Those taxes fund government programs, the biggest of which is health care. In BC medicare costs roughly 60/month and pays majority of costs if you get ill.

In Arizona 60 bucks might buy get you a band aid at an emergency dept. Health coverage can be as much as a thousand a month and can be capped in event of major illness.

I for one don’t mind paying a few more bucks for a couple of fingers of scotch.

Same thing with Skidoo snowmobiles. Built in Canada yet cheaper to buy in the states.

Now all those family raising jobs will turn to Mc Flip jobs and the price won`t drop one dime, even if the NEW private distributors lowered prices Liberals would jack up taxes!..

oh yea, the BC Liberals are to be removed from power in 14 months, can`t wait!..Adios criminal Liberals!

Here, here!!!

lonesome: “Most of the price difference between PG and Phoenix is taxes.”

Don’t forget all those fat union wages and benefits for manning the tills.

Phoenix…hmph. How do are prices compare to Alberta ? Saskatchewan ?

So criminalmindless, maybe we should make the minimum wage $30 an hour? Working the till is a minimum wage job like burger flipping. Making $50k plus to stand at the till is the rediculous part.

Christy Clark’s BS Budget
By Kim, on February 21st, 2012
Kevin Falcon, BC’s soon to be unemployed Finance Minister tabled his “Prudent and Responsible” Budget today. Which would be fine, if it were true, but it’s not.
The reason his budget is complete and utter bullshit is his plan to privatize one of BCs few remaining moneymaking corporations, the Liquor Distribution Branch. According to Bob Mackin, of Business in Vancouver.

According to its Tuesday-released service plan, the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch is forecasting $2.9 billion in sales in 2012-13 and $906.1 million in net income.

Why would any self respecting Minister of Finance do such a bone-headed thing? Think of it as a sort of Scorched Earth Policy. Falcon and Clark know perfectly well that this is the last term for the BCLiberals. Therefore, they are going to make damn sure that the incoming NDP Government has no revenue with which to turn our economy around, thus (in pea-brained NeoLiberal minds) increasing the odds of the NDP being another one term government. Once the incredibly biased right-wing BC ProMedia gets ahold of them (the future NDP Government, that is) they will do everything in their power to re-hypnotise the electorate.
The fact that they get to trample all over the BCGEU in the process is just icing on the cake. But there is one other little thing that Mr Mackin was lightnening quick to uncover today and that is the fact that Mr. Patrick Kinsella (Yes, of BC Rail and BC Hydro privatisation fame) was the headhunter in the deal.

According to the B.C. Lobbyist Registry, Progressive Strategies (the Progressive Group) registered from April 1, 2010 to April 9, 2013 to lobby the B.C. government on behalf of Exel Logistics “to develop a new liquor distribution system for the Province of B.C.”…
…Progressive’s chairman is Patrick Kinsella, the political strategist behind Premier Christy Clark’s successful, 2011 Liberal leadership campaign. Kinsella was involved in two of the biggest privatizations of former Premier Gordon Campbell’s administration.
Progressive client Accenture made a 10-year, $1.45 billion outsourcing deal with BC Hydro in 2003.
B.C. Supreme Court evidence indicates Kinsella was working for both CN Rail and BC Rail before and during negotiations for the 2003 BC Rail privatization.

This explains why the Liquor portfolio was bounced back to Rich Coleman earlier this month. Gordon Campbell’s personal bouncer and axeman in caucus since day one. The man who was also put in charge of money laundering/gambling recently, which goes perfectly with his existing portfolio of Energy and Mines. Somehow.
This regime has been robbing BC blind for over a decade now. Progressive people in tis province have been painfully aware of this fact the entire time, but fortunately for us, the rest of the Province started to awaken after the last election. The HST woke them up enough to pull off an extraordinary Recall initiative to stop that regressive tax and the campaign to Stop The Smart Meters is picking up steam. While we managed to run the Creep in Command out of town based on the HST scandal, his puppets continue to fleece the public for as long as they can hold onto power by stalling an election. If they manage to stall until May 2013, there will probably be nothing left.
I really wish there was a way to force an election with a vote of Non-Confidence in the budget. Or criminal charges. Sadly, the police in this Province are in bed with this corrupt regime.

http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2012/02/21/christy-clarks-bs-budget/

interceptor the difference being workers wages will be cut but not the price of booze so where does the money go out of workers pockets? Want to guess?

lonesome sparrow.

Actually a visit to a urgent care facility in Phoenix costs $100.00. The difference being the visit is not limited to the 12 minute in and out the door no action approach of the BC system.
A private MRI in Vcr costs $2500.00. Add in the cost of airfare and taxi’s, airport parking, etc and the cost is close to the $3500.00 charged at the Mayo clinic in Phoenix. The difference being when you are finished in Vcr with a private MRI it is back to the waiting list and the same old poorly operated system. After an MRI at the Mayo you get results and further medical help if required. I speak from experience. I for one would rather spend money up front for proper medical care rather than have someone tell me the extra tax on booze goes to the medical system. In fact the provincial sales tax was originally instituted as the means to pay for medicare.

One thing is abundantly clear, whether it is going to be liberals again or ndp, we need to make sure the next govt is not a majority. For democracy to work you need checks and balances, and letting someone with egos as big is these buffoons in Victoria have a majority is a mistake.

Actually the provincial sales tax was brought in long before medicare. It was originally call SS Tax, for social services tax. Among other things it went to pay for the hospital costs, the patient paid $1.00 per day and the rest came from the SST.

I agree But… the only thing majorities do in our flawed political system is allow ego maniacs to run unchecked with things they were never elected to do in the first place. No accountability in the system to stop them. The only thing we have to protect us is a minority government IMO.

Expect prices to rise big time.