taxtaxtaxtaxtaxtax. Legal robbery.

What does elidible mean?

Delegation? Is that a politically correct euphemism fer a lynch mob? If not, it should be. Jeez!!

"One business owner says there is an option, although it isn't very appealing "Next year we could take money from the Fair Share Road improvement funds, but is that what we want in Ft St John a new facility and roads that are a mess?"

You don't really think the roads in FSJ are good do you.
I have lived in FSJ and have visited there for the past 20 years. The roads there are worse than the roads in PG.
Can you imagine that?

Elidible: Means if I was F.S.J. businessman, I would look at relocating my business, to just the other side of the town line. How can they expect small business to come up with the kind of money these increases would cost? Especially at a time where the forest industry is not strong. Not everybody is making it on the oil patch, they have forestry in that area too.
metalman.

lostfaith: "The roads there are worse than the roads in PG.
Can you imagine that?"

No, that is simply unimaginable. I'm about to lose faith.

I always find it funny that roads are seemingly always brought up as the number one priority for so many folks. I find it funny because it's honestly the last thing I remember or even pay attention to when I'm visiting a town.

I tend to think more about how the "inherent" qualities of the city. Is it attractive? Is it clean? Are there things to do? Are the neighbourhoods nice? Are there good services? Are the people friendly? Can I breathe the air? Is it safe? Would I want to live there?

Roads are certainly a consideration, but focusing on them at the expense of everything else is sort of like ordering Surf and Turf and being upset because the pepper isn't fresh.

The problem is unaccountable taxation.

Government revenue these days is a forced tax on either your income (ie savings tax), or on your home and business (ie land tax), and all of this forced taxation (ie taxation slavery) is then funneled into general revenues where little men and little women with grand ideas and a spin to sell decide how it should be spent to get them elected to the good life of making decisions and retiring with a huge pension.

There is no justice in this system and it is designed to enslave the citizen and the small business person for the benefit of a corpocracy elite.

I think it should be illegal to tax a persons savings (ie income tax) at a time when foreigners are buying up our country and any after tax income savings are being deflated faster than they can accumulate interest because the central bank keeps printing money devaluing the real value of the currency. (Stocking up on food now would be a better investment than saving money IMO... so as to beat the monetary inflation cycle)

I also think it should be illegal to tax a persons home, business, or property without that tax being a direct tax (ie road repairs or specific infrastructure needs) for a direct purpose that is voted on in a referendum at the same time people vote for their politicians that should be putting forward their ideas for a vote and then managing accordingly and not ruling like they are given a blank check to tax as is needed for what ever schemes 'they' approve of.

I think the federal and provincial governments should not be allowed to tax carbon based commodities after the refinery stage (ie at the pump). Feds should tax imports, resource exports, and transactions of commerce. I think only regional districts should be able to tax carbon at the pump and that this CONSUMPTION verses SAVINGS or HOME tax should be the method in which municipal governments are funded... so that every person in the community faces the realities of the municipal governments political decisions every time they consume fuel (political awareness), and so that every visitor to the community doesn't just free load, but pays their fair share as well even if they are just fueling up to pass on through (maybe they just pass through if the city can't manage its finances).

We need a tax revolt, or we will soon find that it is us that are hungry and cold reading in the dark. We have a system that was designed by the banksters for the banksters (over time) as they used things like government bond ratings, lending rates, ect to influence what was acceptable for our governments and what was not (eg ndp wasn't acceptable, liberals were (not that there is any real difference just world commodity prices, luck and what the banksters wanted). They were wrong and we in the coming years will be paying the cost for the banksters subsidized policies and their manipulation of the capitalist model.

I think this world has three types of people:
Greedy - the people out for personal fame and personal glory who see life as but one kick at the can to take as much as they can and usually call one of the ism's their ideological genesis. Usually these people are politicians, lawyers, or in finance.

Fear - the people that use fear for their personal agenda, or on the flip side are motivated by fear themselves in the form of fear of other people, fear of governments, fear of death, fear of the future, fear of religion, or simply fear of what will happen to their employment. These people will follow any agenda that promises to alleviate their fear and are great sheep if you can get them to vote using their fear as a weapon against them.

The two above IMO rule the world to this point in history and account for our slippage (from ignorance) into an economic slavery of dependence on the bankster.

The future IMO will be in the 21st century for those people that are about:

Hope - the people of free enterprise economies where society is seen as the great enabler (genesis) of all its citizens to find their own niche to contribute in their own ways all working together to built a better world than they inherited, benefiting from their efforts along the way, and in the process helping to bring up those that are less fortunate based on ethical morals, justice, and a view of one people with equal rights and equal opportunities. Most often these people are the independents and their system of government is best empowered by the kind of transferable ballot (like the BCSTV proposal) that brought the BC Socred party to power in the early 50's building the inheritance that we have today.

IMO we will need a revolution at some point to bring into check the unaccountable government we now find that we live under. IMO that time will be next year when we can all remember how our government is broken and vote overwhelmingly in favor of the BCSTV process (to start it at a provincial level) so that we the citizens can take back the power from the political parties controlled by greedy and fear people and put back it in the hands of the hope people.

Time Will Tell