Ya, well ... I'm slow. What can I say? I had a doodle to make:
You're welcome. (For the visual of Greg Selinger with no pants. I know you were planning on thanking me.)I see that the new Premier has callously disregarded my suggestions to take bold action with his time in office. Or perhaps he's just working up to it. However, I can't blame him. In fact, I could easily argue that he doesn't have a mandate to deviate from Doer's uninspired policy direction, since the people voted for Doer's policies, not the crazy schemes of the company bean counter.
However, that has left us with a pretty boring agenda containing more spending, more legislation, and little bitty tax cuts.
Oh ya .. and a helicopter! Helicopters are cool! I even have an idea about how to pay for it.
There are too many things to go through point by point, but a couple things stand out. For example:
> Legislation to create a list of known gangs to simplify court proceedings. Does this really require legislation? To me, it should be a little simpler than that: "Hey, Pat. Go create a list of gangs to simplify court proceedings. Have it on my desk by the 10th."
> New Home Buyer’s Protection Act. First announced under Doer. Won't do much other than increase the cost and pain-in-the-ass factor of buying and selling a house.
> Give municipalities power to seize vacant or derelict buildings. Don't they have this already? Huh. I guess not...
> Reduce small business income tax from 1% to 0%. Yes that's right: NO TAX. I have said before that this is ill-advised. Is 1% really too much to pay? Seriously?
Anyhow, I have to get back to work. Where did I leave the mop?
media: FP, CBC
blogs: curtis, fat arse
Hardly inspiring.
ReplyDeleteThe government has to be terrified about the budget coming.
The riot act is being read in many departments in the last days. Could we follow New Brunswick into huge deficit?
I think a big deficit is inevitable. Well ... just a sec ... how much is in the rainy day fund? How much revenue does Hydro have? Hmm ... maybe if we transfer all of that, move a few other things from here to there, play with the numbers a little bit ... hmmmm.
ReplyDeleteI hope they're terrified about the budget. That might drive some action to cut spending.