Think you can do a better job as BC's Finance Minister
 

Pretty cool idea IMO

Budget Consultations 2012 - The Province of British Columbia

Just saw this on the news didn't cha?
Posted via RS Mobile

Randene and Squire?


Cute couple...........

i got it a surplus of $23.20 m

smokers will hate me coz i did a full on tax on tobacco and property transfer tax, for those who buys and sells properties...

66.86 surplus

full tax of tob/property
personal income tax goes down
corporate tax goes up
decrease in post secondary, protection, and econ dev

33.92m Surplus

Mostly unchanged but the following..
- Tabacco tax 10%
- Corporate income tax 2%
- Property tax 6%
- Post-Sec education -4%
- Community living and other social services -6%
- Social assistance -4%
- Transportation -2%

lol

not enough options to play with.

yeah.. i wish they had more options =(

+74.2m
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/140/62990577.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/546/30560954.png/

1.66 mill surplus.

Increased the carbon tax, but decreased the fuel tax.(8% each)
Increased Corporate taxes(4%)
Increased property taxes, but decreased transfer tax. (6%,6%)
Decrease spending on bike lanes.(8%)
Decreased spending on childcare, community, and social assistance (2% each)
Increased Tobacco Tax (8%)

I got $100 million surplus. Cut a little out of education and save a lot boys!

where's the option of cutting the number MLAs and politicians and their benefits ?

simulator is useless, you can say you'll increase corporate tax and it'll generate $x in additional revenues - but what about when corporations move to Alberta, and expected new companies never materialize (because they set up shop elsewhere)

this is just a stupid ploy to make the masses think the government actually cares what we think

revenues:
corp tax - unchanged
personal income tax +2
pst - unchanged
fuel tax - unchanged
carbon tax - -2% (Thats right!!)
tobacco tax +6%
prop tax - unchanged
property transfer tax +2%
msp - unchanged

healthcare - unchanged
k-12 education -2%
post secondary - unchanged
child services -2%
pharmacare -2%
community living and social services -2%
social assistance -2%
protection of persons&property -2%
natural resources -2%
transport -2%

net result: +11.86m

tear me apart on my decision

I failed all you guys because, you want to increase corp taxes. Corps are what keeps the province going and provide employment. If you increase corp tax, there will not be any personal tax to collect cuz unemployment = 0 personal tax revenue :)

QFT

I had around +7m.

Basically cut a point on health care, added a lot of property transfer (we don't need such a high housing cost. It's wasting too much resources) and increased a lot on education (both K12 and post-sec)

A lot of these cuts or increases have future benefits or consequences that are hard to predict.

Increase corporate taxes too much and corporations will go to other provinces (arguably). Decrease too much and you wont have enough revenue to offset the expenses.

Same goes for things like education, decrease spending and kids will be dumber (arguably). Increase and kids will be smarter.

People have different interests, ie. some care about transportation services so dont mind others to pay more for such things to subsidize this. While others (drivers) may have no use for it and wish to decrease. Yet these things indirectly affect them in the long term. Less public transportation possibly means more cars on the road, and thus causing congestion and smog for drivers.