In a recent Provincial election, 2009, Kash Heed became a trusted MLA even
though those around him were promoting an idea on the sly that the NDP would implement a
Head Death Tax. No truth to the NDP tax but the false and blatantly misleading pamphlet advertisements to a select ethnic group written in their language, not English or French, did win the day for the BC Liberal Party.
Canada Post objected most strenuously to their being used for delivering fraudulent material, they went so far as to contact the RCMP. Is that why Harper wants to stop home deliveries?
The fallout wasn't enough to unseat Kash Heed, but shortly after his win he did lose his Solicitor General Cabinet Seat, 2 times, and ended up as a Minister of whatever that was tossed to him by Premier Gordon Campbell. For those around Heed,
Barinder Sall and Dinesh Khanna, they
lost their freedom and reputations as do gooders for their communities.
Where is Mr. Sall,
and Mr. Virk, and Mr. Basi?
This side of the household we're voting NO to funding Translink that wants to top up the Sales Tax in Metro Vancouver to help their bottom line. The other side of the household says: Think of our children, not just ours, Metro Vancouver children's children, we need to reduce the amount of cars on the roads by providing more efficient transportation.
(... like highways???)
Fair enough, but why should I have to pay a sales tax on something that I'll probably not live to enjoy, especially the big ticket items? Deas Island Tunnel replaced with a Bridge? More traffic being dumped onto Vancouver's Oak and Granville streets with nowhere to go? Will I even have a valid driver's license in ten years? Will I be in a state of mind that I'll be required to be chauffeured to the south side of the Fraser River and still pay the new toll? Evergreen Line, I have no need to go that way, unless there's an inexpensive nursing home at the final destination.
We know what happens when Translink gets their hands on these new fangled untested electronically operated lines, including
Compass Card technology, densification abounds around the stations, not so much with bus stops, but Canada Line, Sky Train, Evergreen will surely follow, and then of course there's the extended line to Surrey, criminal haven of Canada!
It wasn't until I was pushed out of the nest to find myself in another, one that has been home for forty years on the North Shore, that my goal in retirement, now, is to tinker ...... a three legged bench, laminated on a home made form:
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| Three legs stops it from tipping, and besides, its unique, a challenge |
.......without having to be pushed out of this nest because prices of maintaining a home and workshop are skyrocketing, and if I have a chance to say NO, ENOUGH is ENOUGH then my one vote will end up being nullified by the other voter saying YES.
One house, two votes.
Yeah/Nay correction Yea/Nay
It's like this, in my thirties I often checked the Obits to see how my elders were doing, and seeing as how my circle of friends was small, life looked GOOD. Getting older means that the circle has become much larger, and the obit pool bigger and at an alarming rate.
Not saying I want to leave, not knowing what's beyond, knowing what's here and will be left behind until caught up, but why should I pay a tax now for something that I will not enjoy until after the next seven, or even twelve years? The key word is 'enjoy'. Ten years of building, no joy there, not even the promised lower rates from BC Hydro's Site C dam soon to be named after Senator Gordon Campbell, backing him up will be his reservoir: Christy Clark. Bill Bennett be damned.
Why not live the good life eh, the way one journalist David Black was promoting Site C in 2004:
Peace River dam provides a powerhouse of opportunity
David Black
Special to the Sun
Thursday, April 08, 2004
Recently The Vancouver Sun ran a front-page story that detailed concerns about the development of a potential power source, the Peace River dam known as Site C (BC Hydro resurrects Site C dam proposal, April 2). There is, however, another side to the story.
The Site C project is a major one. It will yield 900 megawatts of power, roughly 10 per cent of B.C.'s existing generation, which can be pre-sold for export or used within the province to replace power B.C. currently imports. The dam and power line construction will provide 8,000 person-years of much needed employment. The jobs will be filled by workers from all over the Interior and the north.
Site C is our least expensive source of large-scale new power generation. The over-all cost of the project is $2.2 billion and can be 100-per-cent self-financed by pre-selling the power for export, resulting in little financial risk. There will be a positive return on the initial investment.
The reservoir will flood 5,000 hectares, 500 of which are farmland. BC Hydro already owns the land. The project will replace the need for an equivalent amount of generation that could exacerbate global warming. .......
REBUTTAL from Norman Farrell:
Statistics corrected
David Black was wrong, wrong, wrong on that one. No financial risk, eh? $2.2 billion in 2004 is $2.6 billion in 2014 dollars. In constant dollar terms, Site C is already budgeted at 325% more. Additionally, there is no way it can be self-financed when its power will cost more than its customers will pay.
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Death tax
One per cent would pay one per cent of their estate.
The 99 per cent would pay one per cent of their estate.
With a little tinkering the BC Liberals could bring in a Birth Tax to offset the losses on the missing Trillion dollar LNG royalties.
According to
Stats Canada Life Expectancy Charts eight years to reach my prime. Eight years of paying taxes, and what will the BC Government continue to do .... Christy Clark will continue to bankroll outlandish salaries for her OIC appointees. Amrik Virk was going to get that hiring job, but with his track record of loss of memory during Question Period ..... does he even know he has a new portfolio....
If the BC Liberals want to bring more deaths on in a hurry, cut back on funding for Health by eliminating the payment of royalties from natural resource companies. Oh wait a minute they're already doing that.
PS:
the Father of Translink was Bill Bennett, son of WAC Bennett.
Want to know why?
The hardware, the Bus fleets were on the BC Social Credit books... DEBT
He off loaded onto Metro Vancouver, it became our DEBT, but controlled by Bennett now Todd Stone
Stone admitted as much last week when he told Shaw that “BC Ferries debt is not rolled up on the province’s bottom line. If that debt was on our bottom line, it would very potentially impact our credit rating and drive up borrowing costs. - Stephen Hume- Don't be told by ferry fair tale
We can't fine the quote from Social Credit Bill Bennett, but I remember reading it and now it looks like Transportation Minister Todd Stone has been reading old Bill's reasoning behind the downloading of HIS debt onto 'OUR' shoulders.
To paraphrase Bill Bennett
“Translink debt is not rolled up on the province’s bottom line. If that
debt was on our bottom line, it would very potentially impact our
credit rating and drive up borrowing costs. -
Letter to the Editor North Shore News using the same quote.....
