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作者: tiffiant 時間: 2010-9-14 07:25 標題: Keep the HST referendum question simple: Expert

There are cheap and efficient ways to do it
John Ackermann/Adam Forsythe Sep 14, 2010 07:11:46 AM

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - The Harmonized Sales Tax is going to a referendum and now the experts are weighing in on how the question should be asked. If the question is complicated, you can bet the Liberals will take flak for it.

Much like they did in their 2002 referendum on First Nations treaty rights or like the Parti Quebecois did during its 1995 sovereignty vote.

SFU Public Policy analyst Doug McArthur also recommends a mail-in initiative over an in-person ballot. "Generally, it makes it easier for people to vote. It encourages participation and you always worry about low levels of turn-out. It's cheaper and it's becoming a much more common way of doing votes."

He adds the question would be more efficient and would get the best response if it was just a simple yes or no.

http://www.news1130.com/news/loc ... stion-simple-expert

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-9-14 07:49

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作者: news 時間: 2010-9-14 14:27

im very eager to see everyone in bc get screwed even more..this is very exciting

作者: daimo 時間: 2010-9-14 15:16

just keep it.

ask the Liberals to lower it from 12% to 11 or even 10.

as long as my EOD balance in the bank is the same, I don't care.

作者: lo_pak 時間: 2010-9-14 15:45

回復 4# daimo

I agree, 10% is fair enough. This way there should be way less nonsenses coming up before the next election.

作者: daimo 時間: 2010-9-14 16:08

回復 5# lo_pak

They probably have to do it anyway. It's too embarrassing and costly for them to remove it. They only way for them to survive, if there is a chance, for the next election is to lower the HST.

or else what happened to the NDP will happen to them.

It's good to give them pressure, but if you tell me to spend 30 million for making a point ... I'm not so sure.

作者: somewhereintime 時間: 2010-9-14 16:43

本帖最後由 somewhereintime 於 2010-9-14 16:44 編輯

I think the NDP is going to win the By-Election,
and, we are going to get hit by 15% HST if not higher,
most of the enterpreneurs going to move to Calgary, just like 1990,
the average real estate crumble, except for the mansions $8 Millions and up,
unions established in all small businesses,
so BC become the heaven of the Homeless and super-rich Mainlanders.I hope you would point fingers at me New Year Eve 2011 and prove
that I'm all wrong

作者: lo_pak 時間: 2010-9-14 18:10

回復 7# somewhereintime

Do I have another choice instead of NDP? If the Liberal is lowering the HST, I would rather giving them another chance... Those years under NDP is a nightmare...

作者: somewhereintime 時間: 2010-9-14 18:13

回復 8# lo_pak

Don't forget to thank the superhero Bill Vander Zalm,
his most corrupted Socred government that gave the
NDP a landslide victory, and 10 years of doomed days
in BC

作者: daimo 時間: 2010-9-14 18:57

seriously, no NDP please ...

作者: somewhereintime 時間: 2010-9-14 19:28

回復 10# daimo

It was surely a painful memory

作者: tiffiant 時間: 2010-9-14 19:52

we do not need any more TAX for the NDP

作者: lo_pak 時間: 2010-9-14 22:06

回復 12# tiffiant

But we do have more DEBT from NDP....

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-9-14 22:06

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作者: lo_pak 時間: 2010-9-14 22:14

回復 14# mukmuk2

Under Liberal I feel "tired"...
Under NDP I feel "retarded"...
Instead of combo "A" or "B", can I have combo "C" instead??

作者: fm9610 時間: 2010-9-14 22:27

回復 mukmuk2

Under Liberal I feel "tired"...
Under NDP I feel "retarded"...
Instead of combo "A" ...
lo_pak 發表於 2010-9-14 22:14

NO. If the liberal lose, NDP is a sure win. Remember the union workers, nurses, teachers, etc.?

作者: ATGB 時間: 2010-9-14 22:36

I'd rather pay another 7% on my restaurant meal than to have my income tax risen by 10% later. Just say no to NDP.

作者: somewhereintime 時間: 2010-9-15 00:30

Vander Zalm is not the solution, he is the advenger.
I would trust Carol James over him, but I don't think she can control
the NDP hardliners once they were in power

作者: news 時間: 2010-9-15 09:29

time to vote for the greeeeens!!! lol

作者: sheep 時間: 2010-9-15 20:28

time to vote for the greeeeens!!! lol
news 發表於 2010-9-15 09:29

gas tax will sky rocket high

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