In this particular article the facts do not get in the way of her argument, though a little more rigour would be nice. Bader should have given a specific level for the increased basic personal exemption in BC and her reasons for that dollar figure.

My suggestion would be $16,640 – this is equal to working full time at 40 hours per week (2080 hours/year) times BC’s infamous minimum wage of $8/hour. The BC Liberals would save face with their business brethren and the poor working stiffs would have more disposable income.

BUT there have been warnings about this a very thing long ago…….

Thomas Jefferson 1802:

“’I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

Franklin Roosevelt:

The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism–ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

Mind having the sleaze of government in your corner doesn’t hurt either. Just ask all those socially conscious corporations whose tax we have to pay in their stead, beginning July of next year.

When Mulroney’s fascists introduced GST there was a lot of analysis that showed an increase in income tax by 2% would have eliminated the need for a GST. In fact there are numerous studies to show that income tax is a far fairer tax structure than sales tax.

Of course, just like with our fascist governments today big business told Mulroney what to do and here we are.

If we want efficiency, lets eliminate all sales tax and a la Obama put a 10% tax increase on incomes over 250K to pay for it. After all the rich are the ones that want US to pay for tax efficiency. Let them put THEIR money where their mouth is!!!

Look at Terasen, their PST was 36 Million, dropped to 4.5 Million – and they still refused to pay it. They’re considered a good corporate citizen by this government – but how do you feel about making up the tax this Corp refuses to pay? And how many others are there out there just like them? No one out here knows.

As for Carole, I’ve been an NDP supporter/voter for the last 10 provincial elections – that will end if she is still leader in the next election. That is not sexist. People don’t vote for someone they can’t believe in, it’s that simple. Either she stands up and does her job, or she stands down, and allows someone who knows how to do it take over. Thus far, I don’t have a lot of hope.