bc budget

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Subsidizing wind, solar or other alternative energies distorts the energy market.


9:29AM
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Rhetoric from the campaign trail stressed increased spending and higher taxes.


2:50PM
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It doesn’t only matter how much taxes are cut, it also matters which taxes are cut.


12:31PM
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B.C. taxpayers were on track for a net tax increase of nearly $900 million from 2013/14 to 2018/19.


3:27PM
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British Columbians still on track to experience $599 million net tax hike from 2013/14 to 2016/17.


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Every extra dollar of net income earned by any business that steps over the $500,000 threshold will be taxed at a rate five and half times the small business rate.


3:24PM
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This year’s budget more than doubles last year’s spending increase estimate.

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Budget contained no plan to offset the dramatic increase in business taxes associated with reintroducing the Provincial Sales Tax a few years ago.