Funny the author lists all of these taxes and provides no citations on where these numbers came from. I'm aware of most of these tax increases, or changes in the case of MSP and Payroll tax. However the $285M for tobacco was interesting, I had no idea we were raising taxes on cigarettes so much, then I actually googled and found this:
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During yesterday’s provincial budget announcement, the BC NDP announced another tax increase on tobacco beginning on April 1, 2018. The tax rate on cigarettes will rise from 24.7 cents to 27.5 cents per cigarette, which is equivalent to a hike from $49.40 to $55 per carton of 200 cigarettes.
The increase is forecast to generate an additional $95 million for the provincial government for the 2018-19 fiscal year, which will grow BC’s tobacco tax revenues to a total of $825 million per year.
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After that, I can take the rest of this with a giant grain of salt. The BC Liberals were criminally mismanaging some of the biggest pieces of BC's Economy and deserved to be thrown out. The NDP have been doing fine so far, better than I expected.
The article lists these billions in taxes up front and then spends most of the time attacking the school tax and David Eby specifically. It's obviously a hit piece written by a bitter old person living in a Point Grey mansion worth well over $3M. I'll get out my violin.
misher, you're going to have to try a little harder with your arguments. At least Stingray would have some semblance of understanding what he was talking about.