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and a question

Who paid for his infomercial?

Tax Cut

Gee, why am I not surprised? One-note wonder, he is. Never mind how much cutting taxes is discredited among people who actually understand what it means.

Where will the next cuts in social spending come, to make up the shortfall? *muses*

Mighty Mouse sings "Here I come to save the day" but in the end it's more of the same: pillage pillage, loot loot.

Greedpigs never get tired of playing the same old song, over and over again.

When will we get tired of hearing it?

We are tired already

With this much anticipated Ho Hum speech, at a phenomenal cost to the taxpayer,(brought to you by the HST)Campbell has just sealed his fate. The people won't wait and many businesses won't wait. What a total waste of taxpayers time and money.

We now will put ALL our efforts into recall.

Another Carole James Bumpf

I can't believe it. James harping on about how BC'ers can't make ends meet and yet she just told the media that the NDP will probably vote against the 15% tax cut for those earning under $72,000.

Talk about getting off message and delivering the Libs a wedge issue. Yup time for recall so that we can elect NDP'ers in by-elections to raise our taxes. Bumpf.

Luke

The Liberals raised people's taxes just a few months ago and you were all for it.

Where's your argument about "paying for health and education" now?

Where's the money for this new tax cut going to come from? Out of a program's budget of course.

And contrary to the

And contrary to the impression Campbel gave in his speech, the cut goes on the first $72,000 of EVERY tax payer's income.

That means that HALF of the total tax cut goes to the top 20% of taxpayers.

I think they call it "lying by ommission".

tax cuts and service level cuts.

The thing about announcing tax cuts is that there is never an indication as to what services will be cut to make up the difference. Politicians will never tell you where the money will come from. They set the stage for a shortage of funds aand then a little while later you hear what they will cut to make up for it. Sleazy, but you can always find a few like Cool Hand who don't get it.

Not much to add that hasn't

Not much to add that hasn't already been said. I agree that concurrent with the tax cut we will be sure to see cuts to social services. Funny, after he mentioned about six times in his speech how families and citizens of BC rely on the government to provide the services they need. I guess maybe he'll jack up a bunch of fees to cover the loss in taxes as has generally been the case with all his other tax "cuts". In one pocket, out the other.

The most surprising thing about his speech was that I didn't toss my cookies while having to look at his face for an entire twenty minutes.

Tax Cuts - The Wedge Issue

The Fight HST campaign was led by right-wing Vander Zalm and Chris Delaney - the populist, right-wing, anti-tax crowd and everyone jumped on the bandwagon.

Toronto just elected it's most right-wing mayor ever, involving a Ford Pinto, on the promise of tax cuts.

The Tories waged their 2008 election campaign on cutting the GST from 7% to 5%, which was opposed by the federal NDP. Guess what? The Tories gained in both popular votes in BC at the expense of both the Liberals and NDP as a result.

And James (who won't really give a position on the HST) now says that the NDP will probably oppose the 15% personal income tax cut under $72,000. That's dumb.

Wake up and smell the coffee folks. The right-wing Fight HST campaign is all about cutting taxes. It's Tea Party time and that's what gets votes because that's what voters want.

Get on the wrong side of that issue and you're a political goner.

The Bribe

Last week he bought off Basi and Virk. This week he's trying to buy off the rest of BC.

Cool Bradly D.

The public have thoroughly rejected Campbell`s speech.

Any income tax cuts is nothing but fiscal irresponsiblity. PERIOD.

http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/2010/10/well-well-well.html

If

If this little pitiful performance doesn't start the revolt in the BC Liberal caucus, then they should all begin to prepare for life after politics. Contrary to John Winter's and John Les' take on Campbell's defence of the HST, he said absolutely nothing new or enlightening.

He's done like dinner.

Bill?

It will be funny if Vander Zalm and his friends scream about a 15% tax cut, after they screamed so much about a +5% one on burgers and haircuts.

Nice try Rman

5%...?????

Don`t you mean 7%.....7% on all labour, 7% on funeral services..

7% on air flight tickets.

7% on commercial property purchases new AND used..

7% on leases..7% on mutual fund services...and on and on..

Judging from all the comments on sites from Prince George to Victoria..

The public ain`t buying and or drinking the kool-aid!

Paul Willcocks...

Seems to agree with the Powell River Persuader.

http://willcocks.blogspot.com/2010/10/terrible-tv-night-for-campbell.html

And Shreck...

David Shreck spells it out, more gifts to the rich!

http://www.strategicthoughts.com/

And The Province newspaper nails it..

http://www.theprovince.com/interactive/blooper-tape/index.html

Cheers

Meditation mantra: Dummmmmmb.....

"“Our government has always felt that the best thing we could do is leave more money in your pocket so you can make your own decision about what's best for you and your family,” Campbell said..."

This government - correction - Herr Kkkampbell is clueless. I don't want him closing schools and then giving me my own money back to go open one up somewhere else - that's a lot of work, and it's work that had already been done by someone else, until the Idiot-in-chief closed the schools that were doing it.

I don't want him cutting hospital budgets paid for with my tax dollars - in fact, even more of my own tax dollars now, with HST - and then handing me back a pittance to go open up my own hospital - that's too much work, and it's work that someone else has already done.

Anyone who thinks running a medical system or care agency is easy and profitable should try it sometime. Just don't kill anybody while you're trying to learn - it's all too easy to do. I should know - I'm trying to run one right now, and we're collectively tearing our hair out over how to satisfy the health authority's needs with the smaller budget they give us for the sicker patients. The only thing that keeps us from going postal on the health authority is we know they're going through the same thing at their end trying to balance competing needs.

Kkkool hound, if you really, honestly and truly think that tax cuts are the answer to everything, your education was completely wasted on you, and you're unfit to uphold the duties of citizenship. I want all the money wasted on your education paid back.

Pay up!

Sometimes it's the little things that matter

None of the pretty charts he showed us had any y-axis scale values.

While it is not a surprise, it certainly exposes the whole undertaking as a fraud.

Listen up folks.......

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"The right-wing Fight HST campaign is all about cutting taxes". (Cool Hand).

I think it's more about the way the HST ws introduced and tax cuts being given to big business and then downloaded onto everyone else.

Powell River Perp

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DJT

That's right and the unfairness of taxing one sector less and another sector more.

Strange how the Right says the HST isn't much but hail a 15% income tax cut even though its lost revenue (roughly $600 million) is less than a third of what the HST brings in from the citizenry ($2 billion).

So to make up for the HST we'd need a 50% provincial tax cut?

Luke

I don't think you understand why people signed the petition.

I signed it at a kids sporting event and it was mainly about the unfairness of it.

And as for not understanding it, it was a Canada Revenue Agency employee passing it around.

So the guy down the street,

So the guy down the street, in the fancy new house and the shiny new car gets a tax cut of $600, and I get $60? Gee Maw, maybe with all that new tax money, you and I have the down payment on a new bike.

Incidentally, in a 40 year working life, I never made $72,000 a year.

Dear Mr. Premier; Since this

Dear Mr. Premier; Since this province is in such dire economic straits (due to your Governments incompetence) I hereby give notice that you can keep my promised tax refund. Furthermore, this savings from me to the Government shall be used to prevent anymore cutbacks on any of our Governments services to the people of BC. Thank you, yours truly, Van Isle.

$240,000 or more

That's the cost of the Liberal commercial last night, according to Campbell, who was just on the radio. Paid for by the taxpayers of BC.

The money could be better spent elsewhere.

Still waiting for my knee surgery, Gordo.

I'm Sorry Mr Campbell But You And Your Government Still Lied!

They did and they still are. That advertisement for 20 mins cost the taxpayers of BC about $240,000.00 Yep. Real Dumb, considering he should have recalled the already overpaid MLA's to Victoria, had a fall session and hold a referendum a lot earlier than previously announced. Now to the "Big Announcement" regarding yet another stupid idea. Cutting income taxes by 15% is NOT a good idea, it does not do anything for the low income group, it adds nothing but more cuts to programs and vital services and based on the last 12 months of this governments lies and arrogance how can we as a free society even consider this gang of crooks?. I know that I cannot and based on some of the reactions of my fellow posters they cannot either. Carole James was correct in her statement about how the BC Liberals are now desperate to hang onto power and to counter the recall campaigns. Too late I think, after the overnight on line polls we will see how the electorate responds I believe that the results will be released on Global 6pm newscast. I think that the majority of those asked will nix this idea or reject this government. Based on these results and with the upcoming BC Liberal convention Campbell could get turfed sooner rather than later. The polls will reveal all I guess?