It Runs In Their Blood
BC Liberals are showing just how much they love taxing and punishing BC citizens with ill-timed deceptive programs.
Some might call them bloodsuckers. I prefer to think of them as mosquitoes, as they are killing us through a thousand bites.
Recently, they decided the harmonized tax would be a swell idea – Gordon Campbell and the Liberal Party of BC conveniently forgot to mention this is the election. Maybe because they knew they wouldn’t have gotten elected.
Now we’ll get to pay an extra 7% (probably 8-9% once they slip in an increase) on all sorts of basic necessities.
Some genius decided it would be great to add another $50,000+ to the price of a new home – effectively killing off the new home industry.
Who wants new homes in BC anyway?
They pulled the same stunt with carbon tax – springing it on us well after an election, and neglecting to even introduce the idea beforehand. Now we’re facing the highest energy prices in the continent.
We must reduce our carbon footprint.
Not to stop the pain – the government is forcing a 24 percent cut in elective surgeries. More than 6,000 surgeries are to be cut, and 13 operating rooms closed, for patients needing neurosurgery, treatment for vascular diseases and other disorders. That’s on top of the hundreds previously announced to be cut during the Olympics.
Liberals being Liberals – I don’t know why I expected Campbell to be anything different.
Drop the premier an email and let him know what you think of the way they are punishing BC residents for electing them.
premier@gov.bc.ca
photo credit: ParaScubaSailor
August 11th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
B.C. politics is dysfunctionally akin to Que. politics. There’s an opposition that only gets elected when the governing party becomes too corrupt for the electorate to tolerate. Therefore there’s either a party in power baser than the average province; or on the rare occasion a party in power only acquainted with opposition and never in power often enough to experience the crucible of leadership.