The First BC NDP Budget in 16 Years - Surplus Budget, Debt Up $4.1 Billion

[Dittohead]

More tax on everything   is all you need to know.

 

 

 

 

[Violator]

I think its dumb to have the foreign buyers  tax outside of the lowermainland.

[kingofsurrey]

1 hour ago, Violator said:

I think its dumb to have the foreign buyers  tax outside of the lowermainland.

I agree

 

i would have rather seen a total ban on foreign purchases of all bc real estate

 

 

[LordCanuck]

2 hours ago, Violator said:

I think its dumb to have the foreign buyers  tax outside of the lowermainland.

the chinese have been buying up farm land in the okanagan like mad lately. i guess that makes an added tax on them dumb?

[Violator]

17 minutes ago, LordCanuck said:

the chinese have been buying up farm land in the okanagan like mad lately. i guess that makes an added tax on them dumb?

I just want to take advantage when i sell my house.This will probably push down market price.

[Violator]

50 minutes ago, kingofsurrey said:

I agree

 

i would have rather seen a total ban on foreign purchases of all bc real estate

 

 

When wages have been so low a property sale is peoples only retirement income.

[Lancaster]

On 2/20/2018 at 10:33 PM, DonaldBrashear said:

I don't care about banks or people that paid too much for their home. That is their problem. We have seniors and poor people who can't afford rent. If people walked away from their homes it would be a federal problem (CMHC) so the federal government would chip in and help BC out.

So seniors and low-income people >>> everybody else.  Gotcha.  

[Warhippy]

3 hours ago, Violator said:

I think its dumb to have the foreign buyers  tax outside of the lowermainland.

I think you don't know what's going on in the Okanagan Kamloops or the Island then.

[Warhippy]

52 minutes ago, Violator said:

I just want to take advantage when i sell my house.This will probably push down market price.

So you're only worried because...of yourself.

 

Meh.  Too fn bad then

 

I think it's dumb people rely on their homes to retire.

[JM_]

8 minutes ago, Warhippy said:

So you're only worried because...of yourself.

 

Meh.  Too fn bad then

 

I think it's dumb people rely on their homes to retire.

not everyone has a fat union pension to lean on.

 

The property transfer tax is just a complete grab with no direct benefit either. 

[Violator]

18 minutes ago, Warhippy said:

So you're only worried because...of yourself.

 

Meh.  Too fn bad then

 

I think it's dumb people rely on their homes to retire.

I also dont want a sell high buy high market.million dollar houses that arent worth nearly a million.

 

Government of bc needs to make developing property a public matter instead of a private matter.

[kingofsurrey]

2 hours ago, Violator said:

When wages have been so low a property sale is peoples only retirement income.

When wages are so low our youth will never have a full life.........   place to live.... kids..... or a retirement.....

[Warhippy]

3 hours ago, Violator said:

I also dont want a sell high buy high market.million dollar houses that arent worth nearly a million.

 

Government of bc needs to make developing property a public matter instead of a private matter.

Well, should have thought of that back in 04 when the Liberals changed some pretty key rules leading to the runaway speculation and housing issues.

 

Homes are to live in, not park money in.

[vancouvercanucks2010]

how can debt be going up when there is a surplus?

[kurtis]

On 2/21/2018 at 7:42 AM, Tortorella's Rant said:

If they were serious about foreign buyers, they would ban them outright. But they're not - trying to play both sides. Another bandaid solution for those who live here, the illusion they are doing something positive, and a few extra bucks for rich Chinese and their Vancouver house they use three weeks a year.

Ban them all!! Well at least the old generation! 

[Ryan Strome]

8 hours ago, kingofsurrey said:

I agree

 

i would have rather seen a total ban on foreign purchases of all bc real estate

 

 

Best post you have ever made. I wish I could plus 1 million.

[Ryan Strome]

4 hours ago, Warhippy said:

Well, should have thought of that back in 04 when the Liberals changed some pretty key rules leading to the runaway speculation and housing issues.

 

Homes are to live in, not park money in.

No concerns with the added debt hip?

[DonLever]

6 hours ago, vancouvercanucks2010 said:

how can debt be going up when there is a surplus?

The surplus is from the annual operating budget.  The Debt is long term debt like infrastructure spending.  

All governments do this.  Claiming a surplus and at the same time running up the debt.

 

In this respect the BC NDP is no different from the BC Liberals.

[mdehaan]

On 2/21/2018 at 12:30 AM, ArkDepot said:

Since banking has been centralized globally, everyone is a debt slave.
Money is literally debt.
We exist in a trickle-UP economy.

Pierre Truedung sold us (as Canadians) down the river in 1973 when he allowed the Bank of Canada to be taken over by foreign interest (pun extremely intended)
We've been %$#!ed ever since.
There is no such thing as "surplus".
*Prosperity (and choice, with respect to "voting") are illusions used to keep the average person, of average intelligence (which is to say, most people), compartmentalized. 
To keep them too preoccupied to be bothered with reality.


 

think bigger
 

Post of the year to date.

 

But without question, we will continue to argue about taxes, ICBC and which provincial party breaks the most promises.

[aGENT]

On 3/11/2018 at 7:53 PM, mdehaan said:

Post of the year to date.

 

But without question, we will continue to argue about taxes, ICBC and which provincial party breaks the most promises.

The real irony is that poster thinking this started with P.E.T.