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Lets see here, gas tax in Canada is divided among the "Government of Canada" (6.6 - 7 billion) which 2 billion goes to municipal infrastructures (5 billion pocketed) and the provincial taxes (8 billion) are used to fund road repair and construction across Canada. So that should take care of roads! http://i.imgur.com/ICj9cGX.jpg And arent we paying tolls for our new bridge... arent our taxes paying for services like schools, privatized hospitals and welfare? How much taxes are collected from British Columbians every year? I read another article from last year which claims Quote:
There is so much debate on this forum about petty expenses but lets figure out what the real balance sheets are. British Columbia's main natural resources; lumber, copper, coal, natural gas, oil, zinc, gold, silver, nickel, iron, and fish For instance what does this mean? BC Hydro Fraud? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DtVw8NRkrP...+debt+Libs.JPG Gangsters Out Blog: Can Mike Farnworth fix the BC Hydro Fraud? Like where the fuck is all the money that we extract from coal alone? look at this chart! Quote:
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what do you expect from the government? honesty? even for the research bullshit and running ads to say we have a balanced budget its on taxpayer's dime |
I just thanked cic... What has this world come to?! But I completely agree, huge debt, quality of life for the average bc resident is less than what it was 10 yrs ago. Continued sell off of assets and land to the highest international bidder. |
Just keep paying elementary school teachers more. The kids are the future you know... Spoiler! |
Fraser Institute :fuckthatshit: edit: for MoBettah et al. the FI has been caught lying, misleading, and spinning facts countless times in the past a more serious incident occurred about over a decade ago too iirc due to the blatant lying about the health care system (give ur head a shake) |
My share is only $13,533? No problem. I'll just put it on this high interest credit card :derp: |
This thread isn't going anywhere. People with no finance background shouldn't even be involved in a discussion like this. These stand-alone figures are NOT the way to measure the health of a province's economy. |
teachers can pay for this with their pay raise :troll: |
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It was never going anywhere, even if the worlds brightest economists were posting in here... |
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Can someone please educate me? Would I be personally be responsible for $13,533 that they owe? Are they gonna start collection against their citizen? |
Its just a population to debt ratio thing... you'll definitely pay ~10+ folds more in your lifetime as Canadas debt will forever rise and our Canadian currency will keep losing value due to fractional reserve banking practices (inflation). I found out that the coal exported out of B.C. was worth $5.7 billion at 24 million tons in 2013. Quote:
British Columbia's main natural resources; lumber, copper, coal, ............. * $6 billion worth in 2014 - extraction costs - shipping = ? profit natural gas, oil, zinc, gold, silver, nickel, iron, and fish I had seen another source stating 2014's forecast to be 26 million tons so the total could be over 6 billion. ----- If someone wants to start a business to make money, the bank would give you a loan, with interest, to start it up with confidence knowing that you have assets it can seize in case you fail. Extracting resources is the same where Canada can get a loan from another country, extract its resource, sell it, pay off the loan over time, and continue making profits in the later years. If we look at coal itself, Canada has large reserves so the country that loans its money will have confidence in our assets and will set conditions if it were to fail. Quote:
The Crown owns Canada and will do with it what it wants, specially by raising its debt and charging something like 40 billion a year on interest alone. Who can find the other resource sale estimates? |
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How exactly do you think our government works? You pay, they govern. It's the basis of our entire civilization. Doesn't matter of you are a democracy, communist, facist, or a plain jane dictatorship. So yes at some point you are going to have to pay that 13,533 dollars. I'd argue that the sooner you pay it the less interest you would pay on it. I'd like to know how the 13,533 is calculated though is it per adult, or did they use children as well in their calculation? If it's per adult I think they should just make a special assessment like your strata would and pull a one time amount from each individual. My thought process being its $13,533 now, but over the next 10 years of my life its more like $20000. After they do that, and they pay off the debt, the first government voted in that runs a deficit should be walked down georgia so we can all throw rocks at them. |
oh ok but that's only BC government...what about federal? and municipal? |
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Pst = provincial sales tax - goes to the province GST = goods and services tax - goes to federal (kinda, its actually split in a slightly weird manner) Property taxes = a portion goes towards all three levels if I'm not mistaken. The list goes on & on. |
If you look at all the governments around the world, something like 5% make a surplus each year. If this is a surprise to you, please crawl back under your rock. If you're hoping we will decrease our debt, please crawl back under your rock. With all the crap that is being pushed through in BC, the only thing that might have hope in decreasing our debt is to legalize marijuana, and tax is living shit out of it. Because the only thing that could generate enough revenue to balance the budget, would be the government going into the "drug business." :lawl: |
CiC, I'll do you a favor so you can learn something before spewing random crap. http://ge.tt/7Wc011m1/v/0?c Btw, I hope people are aware of the difference between met coal and coking coal. This thread is pathetic. |
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Btw... coal prices have dropped significantly since a few years back Price slump hits B.C. coal miners - The Globe and Mail |
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Also these charts are something to go on, but they are clearly without any detail... like 40% of 45 billion into healthcare? Doctors and hospitals combined should mirror the U.S. system as the third killer of people after heart disease and cancer. Our life expectancy is the same... what great excuse to make citizens think our taxes are benefiting our own good. http://i.imgur.com/ljGpmBB.jpg What is this 4% GDP from mining and energy... of course when theres a 70% administration fee. http://i.imgur.com/B5PAtZc.jpg Show us you're not a one hitter quitter... care to explain what BS Im spewing? Quote:
There are billions being made off the provinces resources... and nothing is nationalized for us to know exactly how much is extracted and sold at what price. This video is key to ones survival (specially for sheeple) and the end times to come for the Americas. The Greatest Truth Never Told |
i've been thinking recently... theoretically... what if a group of billionaires rich enough to pay off BC's debt completely... all collude and combine their wealth and pay off ALL of BC's debt... what would the result be? would it be a good thing? or bad? what the fuck would happen? (assuming BC was the only one to do this, and the rest of the world kept going on like they do every other day). |
The only short term positive thing would be not paying interest... mainly because there is no accountability on the spending so soon after you'd have billions that would exceed the again unaccounted tax money that comes in. |
in other words, there is no point trying to pay off our debt. lol |
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