Hope it’s next to the unemployment office :)

Slam Dunk! End comments here.

Unemployment office is likely to get a lot busier in BC in the next couple of years. How short people’s memories are.

How short peoples memories are….carbon tax, hst, user fees, higher fines, but they did get rid of photo radar!!

I liked photo radar. Only it should have been administered by government employees, not RCMP.

It put everyone on a level playing field, didn’t matter if you were a cop’s wife or mother, or just a sweet young thing in a short skirt.

I cannot believe the Fiberals actually make schools pay for Carbon Tax credits and then give millions and millions to companies for doing absolutely nothing.

HST was a good idea just implemented wrong. What is wrong with user fees? You use you pay is the best tax there is! Why should everyone that doesn’t use pay? Higher fines! Absolutely!

Next!

“Why should everyone that doesn’t use pay?”

Interesting point. Ask the insurance companies. I bet you they have the answer for you. ;-)

Lenny said “Unemployment office is likely to get a lot busier in BC in the next couple of years. How short people’s memories are.”

I assume that you are referring to the period 1991 to 2000 when the NDP formed the government in BC. The average BC unemployment rate for that period was 8.88%. Canada wide average unemployment rate for the same period was 9.42%. Perhaps there were more factors affecting the economy than just a NDP government? Source is BC Stats.

HST was a lousy idea. It taxed your spending from ‘borrowings’ as well as from ‘earnings’. And with Canadians, on average, now $ 1.65 in hock for every $ 1.00 of disposable income left us, any government that would implement that kind of tax instead of addressing WHY personal debt levels are constantly increasing shouldn’t be government, (and no, it’s NOT because we’re a nation of ‘profligate spenders’ ~ just see how long our economy would continue in ‘recovery’ mode if EVERYONE supposedly “lived within their means”). Constantly rising consumer debt, (and all debt) levels is an indication of a systemic shortage of purchasing power in the hands of the public. And if we had any governments that truly were “for the people” they’d start looking at why this is happening. Not try to curry favour with their financial overlords, like the BC Liberals have sickeningly done.

So then, following that thought right along, perhaps, in the post NDP government years there were more factors affecting the economy than just a BCLiberal government?

Let me think if I remember some of them …. I mean they were so long ago…

1. Housing meltdown in the USA?
2. Economic meltdown in the westerrn world?
3. MPB?
4. Price of tea in China?

They should have kept the HST and ditched the carbon tax.

The HST would be 10% now by the way, had we kept it.

“shortage of purchasing power”

Look no further than “I want, I want, I want …….”

Well, maybe we should also look at “you need, you need, you need …… “

Shortage of purchasing power only in terms of the carrot industry is holding in front of us.

Dump advertising that pays for some of the services we get, pay for those services instead and perhaps we would not want things we do not need.

HST was a lousy idea. I agree with socredible. Oh well only a few days left now for this rip off to go on. Heard on daybreak north this morning that it’s still a go with many exemptions coming back monday morning april 1st. Snack food is back to affordable again, restaurants, some services although that was not elaborated on so unsure which services are still gonna be taxed. gus?? Anyways I will stay home this weekend and monday can start life over again back to how it was and what the taxpayers of this province voted for. Just think now the countdown starts to the end of the LIE-berals. My bet says they get thrown out of all 85 ridings. They certainly deserve it. Lying scandalous money hungry corporate pigs. Just 6 weeks left of them now. I am going to celebrate monday morning. If the exemptions are in fact back in place monday, I will stop shopping in Alberta and will happily support business here again. I learned much during this HST system how to NOT pay it. I saved hundreds of dollars over the 4 years of of this fiasco. They got next to nothing from me. Goodbye snooki and all your campbell butt kissers. Soon hopefully you will face a few judicial inquiries begining with the biggest LIE or them all. The sale of BC Rail. Can’t wait to see your goverment humiliated at the ballot box.

I find it mind numbing that someone put thier “life on hold” because snack food was “unaffordable” under the HST…

They should have kept the HST and ditched the carbon tax.

The HST would be 10% now by the way, had we kept it.
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And right after the next election it would be 22%….

Bigger question is why have income tax, sales tax, carbon tax,fuel tax, and gst?? Why not just have an income tax…that way people that make money pay, and those that make no money pay nothing or very little?????

“And right after the next election it would be 22%….”

Is that what you expect the NDP would do? ;)

I guess all this talk that has been going on about all those major projects in northwest and northeast BC (most of which have already started), all the LNG hype, the need for 10,000,000 workers in the next 10 years is just going to disappear when the liberals are defeated, aye?

Posted by: interceptor on March 28 2013 9:39 AM
“And right after the next election it would be 22%….”

Is that what you expect the NDP would do? ;)

No sir. We would not expect the NDP to do that. Neither would we expect the NDP to LIE and say HST is not on our radar then 3 weeks after the election blindside taxpayers with it. Only LIE-berals would be capable of such an outrage as they themselves demonstrated. The NDP left a large surplus the last time they were kicked out. Things were affordable before they were last kicked out. These LIE-berals have bankrupted many many taxpayers with their outright GREED. And this will be their downfall. Badmouth the NDP all you want but don’t forget at least they kept life affordable in the time they ran the show. They made corporations PAY. Hopefully they win every one of the 85 ridings and hold these LIE-berals accountable for the things they did to the people of this province.

The term LIEbral is becoming the trademark of Liberals in BC. I have seen it used in other news media.

The amount of corruption in the BC government has reached to the state even the Liberal MLAs have come out and asking for Shirley Bond to step down, for the sake of BC institutions. The longer Shirley Bond ignores these calls (even from her own party) for her to step down as BC Justice Minister and the Attorney General, the more damage is inflicted on the institutions under her watch.

She is cutting the cords of integrity that has been built over generations in these institutions and recovering from her cuts and inflicted damages will take years and years.

How do these Liberals look themselves in the mirror and smile. It really shows their lack of character, and the lengths evil these men and women will do.

I’m going to use the Pacific Carbon Trust as one example.

If I pulled a stunt like the PCT, the RCMP would be at my door and hauling my ass into jail for fraud. But because the Gov’t legislated it, there is no recourse and it’s perfectly OK in their books.

The kicker is that 28% of the voting public still think these weasels are OK to vote in again. I’m no fan of the NDP either as they have not cleaned house, but the Liberals cannot get back into power. If they do then we get what we deserve.

Are the Liberals perfect? No. Will the NDP get in next election? Yes.

That being said, I see all of the Pro-NDP’ers on this site are laying the faux outrage nice and thick coming up to the next election. I’m not sure who they’re trying to convince with their antics.

I am pretty sick of the liberals. I voted them in and i intend to vote them out. There is something about two terms in office that make so many govts go bad. We need a shift of the right side party more towards the right if you ask me. Vote in the NDP, nuke the liberals and start supporting a new, more conservative party.
By the way, anyone else notice that we are not allowed to comment on the story about how our current provincial health idiot is not in favour of federal law and order initiatives? Nice to know that even here in PG there are things which must not be debated.

Is that what you expect the NDP would do? ;)

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Absolutely…..do you hear them saying they are going to get rid of the carbon tax credit scam? Do you hear the NDP saying they are going to put sales tax on used vehicles back to 7% ~ not the 12% the dirty lying Liberals are leaving it at?? How about the gas gouging…has the NDP promised to protect us from their pocket picking??

I already know what the corrupt Liberals will do…..and I’m waiting to hear from the NDP, better hear what I like or my vote goes else where. ;-)

Jim: “How about the gas gouging…has the NDP promised to protect us from their pocket picking??”

I know the NDP can do no wrong in some people’s eyes, but if you’re expecting the Provincial government (NDP, Liberal, Green, whatever) to intervene and set gas prices, I wouldn’t hold your breath.

What amazes me is the people(sic) on this site who are against progress, innovative thinking and user pay for utilities.

That leads me to believe they are going to vote for no progress, non-thinkers and support taxing everyone for everything, even if they don`t use it.

Not capatalism for sure, must be something left of centre me thinks….
If that happens and the non thinkers get into power, we will have four to six years before the rats jump that ship…I would rather keep this ship afloat and get the life boats out for those that must leave….better ship to me.

……and spent hundreds of dollars in gas driving to Alberta plus wearing out the car.

Maybe the NDP will buy back BCRail and build some new ferries!

Adrian already has his documents in place. I wonder how many leaders will have to step down in the next four years! Any bets?

Just got a call from the Liberals. Told them the three in my family would be voting for them. Good people. But then, I REMEMBER what the NDP didn’t do, and that was, gain my TRUST!

The BC liberals are very dangerous for democracy with their insidious promises made at election time only to be reversed after getting elected. They have shown that they have no moral fiber to stand on and can not be trusted with power.

We need a judicial inquiry into the BC Rail sell off as well as the HST implementation. These are vital issues for the protection of our democracy.

The BC liberals brought us the changes to the community charter that allows city councils to cheat us out of our democratic vioce with the Alternate Approval Process to ram through political insider pet projects taxed to your hostage home.

The BC liberals brought us a huge carbon tax to heat your northern home in the winter or drive to work you pay a regressive tax on an essential commodity to fund corporate income tax cuts and corporate welfare.

The BC liberals collect more from regressive MSP premiums than they do from corporate income taxes… more from tuition than corporate income taxes… this is a taxation regime designed to monopolize the economy with the already made elites at the expense of any chance of opportunity or a true free enterprise system. Rather than nurture the free enterprise eco-systemic feed back loop of a healthy middle class society… the BC liberals have done their best to try and destroy an equal opportunity society by regressive strangulation. They are monopoly capitalists after all.

The BC liberals have no qualms about fracking in your back yard to turn a dime supplying China, and want you to pay world market prices for the ‘privilege’. Not only that but the BC liberals were willing to surrender provincial sovereignty for environmental reviews, and signed on to Harpers FIPA agreement that will allow Chinese state owned corporations to sue our provincial governments if we try to block their investment proposals and operations… no doubt this is part of the BC liberals insidious plan to see BC sued by Petro China for the ndp blocking the Northern Gateway so as to give political advantage to the BC liberals who would call it government waste… when in reality its treason to sell out our sovereignty in the first place through treaties that circumvent our constitutional process.

The BC liberals have no depth to the shame they are willing to ignore and pretend they are just business friendly good guys.

Bang on!!!!!!!

We can always fix a stagnant economy down the road.

What the Liberals have done to this province can never be undone.

Eagle: “The BC liberals have no qualms about fracking in your back yard to turn a dime supplying China, and want you to pay world market prices for the ‘privilege’. “

Your hot shower in the morning (and other things), brought to you by fracking. Just remember that.