September Budget Panned

Sorry, I know, its not even close to September anymore, I forgot to add it here.

The British Columbia budget has been unveiled, hoping to spread enough love to citizens and to distract from the furor of the Harmonized Sales Tax.

It’s unfortunate events are not unfolding as the BC Liberals would have preferred they turn out. The budget is a disaster for hardworking, everyday British Columbians; too many benefits for big businesses, not enough help for the working families that make up so much of our province.

We have a budget that cuts payments to our health care system and to our culture and arts, but has money available to give prisoners flatscreen televisions. We have been told income taxes will be cut again to make certain that the HST is revenue neutral, so why is it a family of four will actually pay more in taxes, before factoring in the increased costs of goods and services.

Even for those who are getting a tax ‘reduction’ thanks to the HST will end up paying more; a retired couple making $30,000 a year will actually pay $238 dollars less in taxes, but that will be a small comfort to them when the goods they purchase eat up those savings and more.

The HST will condemn working families and lower income British Columbians to a lower standard of living, just so the BC Liberals can kickback more money to their corporate owners.

This budget will sound the death knell of the middle class, with increased taxes and no new services to show for it. It makes one wonder just what our tax money is being used for, if not for the services that the BC Liberals slashed repeatedly.