Premier John "Prince of dithering and self-doubt" Horgan

Written by Grant G


"a good plan today is worth more than a brilliant plan tomorrow" .....For John Horgan, neither is true, there is no good plan today and as for tomorrow, tomorrow will have to wait while Premier Dithers hands out more homework assignments to his chosen "consultants" ....the delayers, the make cover for premier Dithers' decisions....

In other words.....if this is leadership or vision...as they say.."Houston, we have a problem"

16 years BC NDP languished in opposition, 16 years to formulate a plan for a prosperous British Columbia, 16 years of griping about everything....including "a generational sellout to LNG cartels"

Blessed be the bold, behold the coming of a new progressive direction for British Columbia....then suddenly I awake from last night's dream only to realize nothing has changed in our province..

Premier Dithers(John Horgan) has neither the conviction of conscience or the courage to bring progressive change to a democracy and leader starved British Columbia..

Broken NDP election promises, too many to count, progressive ideas coming from this propped up band of lemmings...rather than being too many to count, there is nothing to count as nothing progressive has been put forward..

Site C....Boondoggle, no justification, brutal economics and ultimately, BC Hydro will be bankrupted and require a taxpayer bailout, more likely it will be sold to the private sector, Gordon Campbell's goal of liquidating BC's provincial assets will eventually come true..and I don't see John Horgan doing a damn thing to change this inevitability...

Being the one who wrote glowing endorsements on John Horgan before most even knew his name...being the one that personally brought John Horgan to power....to say "disappointed" is an understatement...

Site C....John Horgan once handed the reigns of power became afraid, his powerful pre-election speeches, his thundering pre-election diatribes in our legislature, all the answers his side professed to have at the ready, needing only to be granted a chance to lead B.C.....the chance was granted, the opportunity presented itself and what happened next, and maybe it was expected, maybe me, and all BCers should have known better....John Horgan was the proverbial deer in the headlights, spooked, afraid of everything and unfortunately for BCers...John Horgan froze, panicked, Premier Dithers did more than step up to the batters' box and strike out swinging...Premier Horgan didn't swing the bat, he just froze, Horgan was motionless as softball pitches floated over the plate, begging to be crushed for a homerun...Premier John "dithers" Horgan was so afraid of hitting a sitter pitch foul he didn't swing at all, hoping and praying that the pitcher would grant him a freebie walk to first base...that didn't happen......John Horgan thus far.....Struck out badly without even taking a swing and let team British Columbia lose!

British Columbia does not have a housing crisis, British Columbia has a housing/rental affordability crisis


1) Premier "Dithers" real estate measures.....Dithers is targeting domestic shadows, he refuses to address the real problem, that being Asian money movers have created a domestic disaster for local wage earning citizens, ...yearly salaries can't come close to buying into BC's Asian money dumpster..

Rather than banning foreign buyers....rather than targeting blind trusts, numbered companies, banning real estate being bought under corporate shields...or provincial nominations, or targeting Quebec's immigrant investor scam....Premier Dithers did nothing but target local buyers, target Canadians...Target the honest...

Properties over $3 million, why should school taxes double?...two houses side by side, expensive area, one homeowner let his property decay, let repairs and upgrade renos lapse, that homeowner assessment remains flat...the other landscaped their property, new windows, etc etc, one homeowner spent money, created jobs and helped the overall economy...their assessment peaks above $3 million...the good homeowner is now punished with a $12,000 dollar extra tax....

Targeting people who own a cabin, people who own property where workers aren't looking for rental homes...charging those Canadians who contributed, now forcing those to rent...or to pay..how does that help with the affordability crisis?...it doesn't...Carole James, as much respect as I HAD for her is now gone too...Finance minister Carole James is offering up to Canadians caught up in this ill-conceived tax on second properties a non-refundable tax credit....a tax credit that does most of these dual homeowners no good at all...homeowners with meager incomes won't qualify for any tax rebate...and believe me, this speculation tax is illegal, lawsuits will be forthcoming...

Furnished vacation homes, forced to rent, forced to pay...Do people put their possessions in storage, another cost...move their stuff back n forth...I believe the government has to prove what a speculator is...and if people haven't sold in years and years, or ever...Canadians owning two residents shouldn't be punished...This speculation tax/asset tax/envy tax will be the death knell of Horgan's minority government...Horgan pulls the tax in it's entirety or adios..

When is speculation considered a crime?...our capitalist society is predicated on "speculation" ..those who play in the stock market, speculating away, speculating that the market will rise, or fall...when a stock market/commodity market "speculator"s portfolio rises above $3 million, is it taxed differently, do new rules apply to those who are successful...if the Premier Dithers' government is prepared to tax speculators...are they also prepared to bailout out, and or hand cash over to those who speculated and lost?...

People who own second homes, those who pay two sets of property taxes, those who don't use civic services, yet still pay full property taxes....who will make homeowners whole again who are forced to rent and their homes are trashed, or when renters decide not to pay and squat in a home, knowing it takes months to legally evict deadbeat renters and squatters, who's on the hook for those costs...insurance liabilities, smokers stinking up other people's homes...who pays...?

Premier John Dithers Horgan and Gregor in the hands of developers Robertson....empty homes tax..

These useless fucking politicians, Christy Clark..Gordon Campbell, Gregor Robertson and now it appears, John Horgan...These traitorous politicians feasted on foreign cash, took tens of $millions from developers, they not only stood by watching, doing nothing while our real estate market soared beyond the reach of domestic Canadian workers....These same lackluster politicians are now puking new tax rules that mainly target Canadians....Gregor Robertson is running for the hills..he fucked up badly and knows he is political toast...Vision party and Gregor are guilty of aiding and abetting the economic destruction of Vancouver ....

BC's housing market....a teardown rancher on east 21st street for $1.4 million....if that property was reduced to $900k....it's still out of reach for the majority..

Andrew Weaver is right....Foreign buyers ban and the loopholes they use need to be the target...Not those who work, live and pay in Canada....and a non-refundable tax credit ain't worth a hill of beans to the majority of Canadians..and, anyone hit with double taxation, those who have to pay double school taxes, those who aren't rich enough to absorb the $$$ hit will merely pass the cost onto those who may be renting....ultimately making a bad situation worse...adding to the affordability crisis.

Unfortunately, John Horgan's housing measures are an orange version of communism..

2) Renters grant...another bad idea, another election promise abandoned.....

3)$10 dollar a day daycare...as I told Premier Dithers pre-election....you won't be able to deliver, children need to be cared for by quality people, quality people need a liveable wage..a liveable wage in B.C. is minimum $60k per year....$10 dollar day care can't happen unless government pays for it, meaning the taxpayer pays...the same tapped out, now double house taxed, carbon taxed, big energy gouged at the pump taxed, BC Hydro taxed(for boondoggle Site C) taxed....

The need of daycare is directly related to housing.....if the family didn't have to spend the majority of their income on housing....subsidize daycare so developers and Asian money can keep home prices beyond reach...daycare, affordable daycare is a laudable goal....average housing costs threefold over one's income is a crime..should we stop crimes, or pretend we can afford laudable goals?

Premier Dithers indeed...

GHG reductions, 7 years of carbon taxes, no noticeable reduction...bring on more carbon taxes and bring on LNG to blow our emissions off the chart....??

LNG.....The big fraud...LNG isn't clean, politicians merely want to accept the clean LNG lie, it's easier to act(?) stupid than to actually do something...(eh Christy Clark..)

John Horgan and his NDP Lemmings all hollered to the heavens about the BC Liberals' LNG framework....a "generational sellout" they screamed....and now...

Shell...LNG Canada is musing about building their $30 billion dollar LNG plant....Shell Canada want to build in BC...however...The entire LNG plant is to be built in South Korea and China and barged to B.C....LNG Canada is wanting all steal dumping duties imposed on Asian steel removed....facilitating a cheaper build....Shell Canada want immunity from the carbon tax increases, while local BCers, while the general public pays even more carbon tax, while Shell (LNG Canada) blow our GHG emissions off the chart, they will pay nothing while BCers pay more and more for rising emissions.....that is too sick Premier Dithers! bafflegab much?,

In theory i'm in favour of a carbon tax, but if industry is granted permission to spike our provincial emissions upward...and Horgan plans on increasing our carbon tax...paying more carbon tax while GHG emissions skyrocket.....if Horgan is prepared to treat the public as gullible fools...Horgan's NDP government will find itself moving rather quickly back to opposition benches...perhaps after another 16 years of griping as opposition the NDP will figure out how to govern honestly!

There's more, that foreign built barged to BC LNG plant....LNG Canada want to be able to write-off in its entirety on a fast-tracked basis...That BC LNG tax....LNG Canada want that removed too..

Need more...LNG Canada want to use $billions in deep-well credits(already in hand) to avoid paying any royalties too...

LNG Canada...Andy Calitz(CEO) is of the mind that the income tax paid by gas frack workers in BC's northeast is all the province needs in the way of LNG/gas revenue....meanwhile our water is abused, toxins pumped in the ground, earthquakes triggered, earthen dams everywhere, animal, caribou land sliced and diced and BC's GHG emissions skyrocket....

All this noise being made by big energy bastards....Believe me, it's true....Shell, a worldwide conglomerate...making idle threats around the world...because as we speak, Shell is working every country for free gas, for better deals for them...Shell at this very moment is threatening to not invest in anymore Australian LNG projects unless they get cut a better deal...

 https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/australia-will-miss-next-wave-of-lng-developments-shell-warns/news-story/44169887d0e2838a9ee5a605a34ea3d5

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  I remind you.....Australia isn't seeing any tax revenue from record LNG exports....

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With US$197 billion in market capitalisation, Chevron is the world’s third largest and most profitable Oil & Gas Company – yet, Chevron has:

• stashed over US$35 billion in un-taxed revenues in off-shore accounts
• at least 600 shell companies -and likely hundreds more- registered in Bermuda and Delaware
• set up a new tax scheme, currently being audited, to reduce its tax bill by AUD$35 billion or more
• amassed credits to avoid royalty payments on the Gorgon project, the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, for the first 8 years of operation or longer
• had operating revenue in Australia every year since 2011 of over AUD$2.5 billion, but managed to receive over AUD$30 million in tax refunds

Additionally, Chevron’s own annual report reveals that tax filings have not been approved by the United States government since 2008; in Nigeria since 2000; Angola since 2001; Saudi Arabia since 2012 and Kazakhstan since 2007. Chevron is unable to estimate the tax it may be required to pay given the ongoing examinations by tax authorities in countries around the world.

http://www.chevrontax.info/piping-profits-out-of-australia/  

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Everyone is a loser in Australia's LNG Boom

The LNG debacle provides a good test case of what's gone wrong. Australia is on track to overtake Qatar as the world's biggest exporter of shipped gas by 2019 -- but getting there hasn't been a success for the government or petroleum companies.

Canberra's revenues from its Petroleum Resource Rent Tax fell 60 percent to their lowest level since 1999 in the year through June 2016, despite a 50 percent increase in gas export volumes.

 Petroleum tax and royalty revenues per oil-equivalent barrel came to about 4.2 percent of the local price of crude -- the lowest share since 1990, and well below the 25-year average of 10.4 percent.

The dip is unlikely to be a blip. Thanks to the way the government allows expenses to be deducted before a project makes a taxable profit, it could be decades before the country starts to receive a better return on its mineral wealth. The vast sums spent building Australia's LNG projects have created a tax shield of carried-forward costs that was worth A$238 billion ($182 billion) in 2016, with the figure rising each year 5 percent faster than the yield on government debt

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-03-26/everyone-s-a-loser-in-australia-s-lng-boom

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British Columbia having an LNG export plant is important why?....The bottom line for British Columbia...

There is no point having a LNG plant if the province doesn't make money...to allow this reckless money loser...for the sake of a handful of gas fracking jobs....an industry that will make BC's GHG reduction targets a sick joke, an industry requiring taxpayer welfare...

Well people....Premier Horgan(Mr. Dithers) will no doubt hire some NDP party lackies to conduct a review, a review that will give Horgan comfort and cover...

Right Johnny Dithers?....Here's another bit of cover for you Premier Dithers....a security blanket courtesy...

The Powell River Persuader.

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Like the picture atop this post....Too bad we didn't elect a Dave Barrett like premier that was prepared to be brave and with abandon leap headlong into the future..but alas we elected....Dithers.

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