The BC Liberals end a BC NDP program that provided supports for youth aging out of care. Add this to your Read Later list?
My teachers in highschool didn't even mark our finals cause of the strike. Here are a few more highlights:To read the BC Liberals full campaign platform, check here:Sign up for our newsletter to get exclusive content, contests, and perks direct to you.Daily Hive is a Canadian-born online news source, established in 2008, that creates compelling, hyperlocal content.BC Liberal party leader Christy Clark (Province of BC/Flickr),My Vote, My Future: Jonathan Moses on BC Election 2017,My Vote, My Future: Nicole Stevens on BC Election 2017,BC Election 2017 could lead to minority government: report,a decrease in the interest rate on student loans to prime,$2.6 billion in capital spending on post-secondary institutions,a new program to help single parents access training,an extra $352.5 million for 13,000 new childcare spaces by 2020,an increase for the first-time homebuyers exemption to $500,000,the requirement for real-time disclosure of donations to political parties,a review of proposals on political fundraising reform,the establishment of April as Sikh heritage month in BC,$165 million for youth mental health and substance abuse issues,four years of balanced budgets to eliminate BC’s operating debt by 2021,50% discount on MSP premiums for households earning less than $120,000,an unspecified increase to the minimum wage,the establishment of a permanent office in Washington DC “to promote and protect BC trade interests”.
Even the mental healthcare funding is a token gesture!Your list of cons summed this up very nicely.They have ran a surplus by cutting much needed public funding across the province and not meeting needed levels/commitments. Bright Future. With the COVID-19 situation evolving rapidly, remember to be kind, be calm, and be safe.
Red card here. Stop calling tax credits tax deductions! The BC Liberals did this in the election. We are stable and, even better, we are growing. The Liberals cannot be trusted on either portfolio anymore. Third, not only do they not amount to much foregone revenue but they also do not amount to much for the individual tax payer. In October of last year Horgan was encouraging his party to be bold in the creation of a 2017 platform. With this myriad of little tax credits there are three important things to remember. NDP should own their differences on issues like that and say the Liberals don't go far enough, but the Liberals are going to respond with the budget.I still think the best way to tell whether an incumbent is going to lose is how angry the electorate is, and I think things like the foreign buyers tax, promising Uber, reducing MSP and tolls are all ways of placating the public.
There is just so much here.First, BC Ferries has been consulting Ferry fees for literally decades. But even that is disappointing because the BC Liberal Party chose a morass of an implementation plan. Just "hopefully we secure a long term contract with the BCTF" that they'll probably screw up and low ball the teachers in.My sister didn't get to attend her grade 7 final dinner cause of the fucking strike. NOTE TO POLITICAL PARTIES: 1. One of our teachers even said that he's making 80k and doesn't understand why they are stroking and he doesn't understand why he can't opt out of the strike.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast,Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. If you have symptoms, please use the COVID-19 Self-Assessment tool https://covid19.thrive.health/ or call 811.. We also know that under the.All together this tax credit strikes me as a pure electoral announceable that was not well planned or thought out. In British Columbia under Today’s BC Liberals, unemployment is down, investment is up, jobs are up and communities are succeeding. They keep on referencing actions that the NDP government took in the 90's and implying that they'll do the same. It is called a credit once and a deduction all the other times. Add this to your Read Later list? Get the nomenclature correct because it is really hard for me, a tax economist, to think you are […].Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:Post was not sent - check your email addresses!Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.NOTE TO POLITICAL PARTIES: 1. Of course, once again, the platform does not indicate which are refundable and which are not, because, you know, details.
Start at page: Link: Copy. The “credit” will be in place until BC Ferries is able to design some sort of loyalty program for 2020. A lot. I actually just read the platform and they basically plan on doing the same as they've done for the last 4 years (not much on housing affordability which I'm sure a lot of people will look for). Second, these tax credits are promoted by the BC Liberals as a tax cut. Blake Shaffer wrote a good piece over in Macleans about this.There is very little in this election platform to address some of the very important policy issues in BC today, not the least of which is affordability (housing, kids, life). Partisan attack website made by taxpayer-funded BC Liberal caucus sta. Overall, unlike the Liberal platform which was a bit of a meh (and for flips sake can’t they please correct their horrible error of calling a tax credit a tax […],[…] are not tax deductions. Rather than have all these individual credits, at least the ones directed to families could simply be rolled up in the BC child tax benefit.If you are interested in learning yourself about tax credits might I suggest this Neil Brooks,One last specific item I will mention, the platform looks to cap tolls on two of the big bridges on the mainland. It was still a glossy, full colour, bandwidth sucking document but easier to deal with. The BC Liberals have spent 16 years getting us to this place and, in those same 16 years, the BC NDP have failed to provide British Columbians with a credible alternative. As other provinces and countries position themselves for success in the clean economy, the platform released today puts B.C… You can find the latest reliable health information at www.bccdc.ca..
bcliberals Published on April 10, 2017. […] and this has caused a lot of chatter.
Not after 15 years of deliberate neglect.So the liberals are "Committing to four more balanced budgets" yet they promise tax cuts and have made million in dollars in spending promises.It's because they promise to balance the operating budget.This means that the debt grows to fund capital projects such as the increased share of the transit, Massey bridge etc.
Like 0. Worse, IMHO, is that the party that is touting themselves a fiscal stewards can’t get basic tax nomenclature right. In the case of this tax “credit” the BC Liberal Party sets the value at 25% so we know it is a tax credit and not a deduction. That is just pure political BS. The grade 12s didn't get to do anything cause the teachers were not allowed to coordinate events after school .I understand you wanting better wages and stuff but why ruin a kids time in elementary/highschool.