FORSETH – Out of 11 ways NDP says it’s helping, eight of them don’t apply
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THIS MORNING I received a note from Premier David Eby and the BC NDP outlining what they said were 11 ways they were helping British Columbians with costs.
If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the list:
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- 1. Increasing the BC Family Benefit …
NOPE, doesn’t apply
2. Raising the minimum wage … NOPE, doesn’t apply
3. Making prescription birth control free … NOPE …
4. Providing a renter’s tax credit … NOPE, doesn’t apply
Helping with costs and fees:
5. Ensuring ICBC rates are more affordable … finally, one for me
6. Expanding affordable childcare … NOPE, doesn’t apply
7. Removing unfair tolls on the Golden Ears and Port Mann bridges … NOPE, doesn’t apply
8. Increasing the climate action tax credit … I think I get this, but I’m certain I pay far more in taxes than I receive back
9. Making transit free for kids 12 and under … NOPE, doesn’t apply
10.Freezing ferry fares … NOPE, doesn’t apply
11. Keeping BC Hydro rates low. With an equal payment plan of $190 per month, I certainly wouldn’t call that LOW.
So, out of the 11 ways the NDP allege they are making life more affordable for me, nearly three quarters (8) don’t apply — 1 does –- and two I’m fairly certain aren’t saving me anything … but I could be wrong.
The NDP concluded their message by stating:
We know there’s more to life more affordable for British Columbians (pretty sure that should have been ‘there’s more to making life more affordable’) — and we’re focused on doing just that. Look for even more action from Premier David Eby and our BC NDP team this year in the lead up to the election this fall.
PLEASE STOP making life more affordable for me … I can’t afford any more of your help!
Alan Forseth is a Kamloops resident. For 40 years he has been active, in a number of capacities, in local, provincial and federal politics, including running as a candidate for the BC Reform Party in the 1996 provincial election. He was involved in the BC Liberal leadership campaign and is now a member of the BC Conservative Party.
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Bronwen … regarding your last comment, “old, retired, self-centred, (usually white) men.”
Give it a REST!
You can misrepresent me as much as you want, and feel smug and superior about it, however you’ll still be wrong about me
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I believe that helping the downtrodden in society lifts up society as a whole. Right now, our government is responding to a housing cost/wage disparity by giving renters, families and working parents a hand up, as it should. I’m sorry you think government should only be instituting moves that help people in your demographic.
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The NDP has played a major part in the decline of communities over the last few years, particularly in regard to open drug use and liberalization of drug laws. A society does not progress when the main priorities are redistribution of wealth, high taxes, the kneecapping of criminal justice and anti-meritocracy.
Progressives ruin cities. Progressive governments ruin provinces and countries.
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I’m not actually sure where the term Progressive came from. The current self-described iteration of “Progressive” is anything but. The practice of re-distribution of wealth could more correctly be described as re-distribution of other’s wealth, as Progressives are typically not interested in seeing their personal wealth included in that redistribution.
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Everything’s not all about you, Mr. Forseth. I’m no NDP lover, but their moves to make life more affordable for working people, renters and families are helpful. Our society is populated by many people who aren’t old, retired white men.
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Sure Bronwen … bring out the cheep shot with ‘old, retired, white men’
I’m sure there’s plenty of others, with all kinds of ethnic backgrounds, that would agree.
Here what I will call a “Fact”:
The more government intervenes, the more money gets pulled out of the economy, and out of taxpayers pockets, where the value of it is lowered due to an ever burgeoning number of public sector employees. Instead of having money in our pockets, to spend and grow the economy and employment, the government takes it where they decide it should be spent. Governments at all levels are interfering at levels never before seen … and yet …
We now pay significantly more in taxes than ever before, and yet we have overflowing schools, a health system near collapse, +/- 20% of the population have no doctor, we’re in a housing crisis, the mentally ill and those addicted wander around the street like zombies and hundreds die every month from a poisoned drug supply … and, and, and …..
AND BEFORE you decide to again label me as someone that is a mean spirited, you would be wrong. I simply wish to see a society where every individual is given an opportunity to have a hand up – BUT NOT continually have a hand out and not contributing to society in any meaningful way.
I AM a small ‘c’ conservative, WITH a social conscience
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You’re correct. I should have said, “old, retired, self-centred, (usually white) men.” I know many old, retired white men who believe that our society benefits by using our taxes to help all live a better life, particularly struggling young families, working mothers and people trying to pay high rents while earning minimum wage. As for your hydro rates–you do realize that minimum wage earners pay the same rate as you, right?
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Not that I particularly care for the NDP but it seem to me that the vast majority of the populace is keen to complain but not so keen in living a more frugal lifestyle.
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