Cry me a river Sebas!

The same people who are gambling now, always gambled. if the FNM Government
say gambling is so bad. They are free to close every single one down. I dare them
to do just that. Close them down revoke their licence. they the FNM has the power,

Mr: Bastian if you intend to break the law. Why are you talking it.??

Hehe the illegal gambling people saying someone forcing them to operate illegally....where Tal lol

A signal that our country, it's democracy, and our well-being is on the downward slide.
That the web shop owners have ANY say in this country's affairs, shows that we don't have far to fall.
We are close to the bottom now.
The addicted poorest WILL start stealing, more.
Armed robbery WILL increase.
Unemployment WILL remain a huge problem.
Poverty WILL increase.
Homelessness WILL increase.
Murders WILL continue to plague us at too high a rate.
This, due to the rapacious greed of a few, killing a group of people as surely if they used a gun.
This whole affair, and the amount of very valuable time this country has wasted on it, is not a positive sign that this country has a future to be happy about.

Are you referring to the gaming operators or the Bahamian commercial bank that the Minister of Housing just confessed is actively enticing, seducing and preying upon poor Bahamians to take out salary deducted loans they cannot afford so that they can spend the proceeds of these loans with their merchant class friends?

Is it either or?
It's both of them, yes?

Should be BOTH!

This is a good test case to see if Government should really be using taxes as a whipping tool to punish businesses that are successful. And of course the irony of Mr. Superwash, Vincent D’Dguilar who owns 90 percent of the clothes washing business be caught up in the middle of it all. Should government impose an outright moratorium on Superwash opening any more stores until other wash house operators gain 20 percent of the market or should they charge a patron tax at all stores he open in addition to the ones he now operates. Maybe the government should charge a 2 percent monopoly tax on Superwash or a sliding scale tax in addition to the taxes they now pay. See how ridiculous it’s sounds Vincent, when it is applied to your own industry? And you have generation money. What about the web shops that are just starting out? And of course, since legal web shops are a new product in the country, business is a booming and yes, some may appear to be making a killing. But what about four, five years down the road when web shop gambling becomes a regular part of the landscape and sales start to decline. The operators will have to use some of the same profits they are making now to rebuild and rebrand the industry. You know more than anybody else, D’Aguilar, that Bahamians don’t like washing in no ole break down machines and you are able to keep your market share by refurbishoyour laundromats every so often and giving the Bahamian people, at least your customers, new toys to play with. What y’all and Minnis dem should be doing now is be using the web shop dem and your own Superwashes dem along with Super Value as models to get the rest of the Bahamian economy going. Stop listening to them racist who telling you ‘dad too much money for dem (Black) gambling boys to be handling. Cause they surely don’t have a problem with how much money the traditional casinos (Paradise and Cable Beach). Bimini Brooklyn? Handling. On Vince happy customs duties on washers and dryers still!

Is there a time when they were not breaking the law?

FAAAAAKE NEEEEWS!!!! THIS ENTIRE TAXING OF THE WEBSHOP IS FAKE NEWS. IT'S A HOAX. THE FNM NEVER EVER EVER INTENDED TO TAX THEM. IT WAS JUST A RED HERRING. I CALLED THIS AS SOON AS I HEARD ABOUT THE PROPOSED TAX AND IF YOU LISTEN TO THE NEWS YOU WILL SEE THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS ALREADY STOPPED THE TAX. THIS TAX THE WEBSHOP SCHEME WAS JUST TO RUN INTERDERENCE WHEN THEY PROPOSED THE 12% TAX ON US. SO DISHONEST. SO OBVIOUS -- COUNT D'AGUILAR EVEN INTENTIONALLY SABOTAGE D THE CASE BY MAKING A PRESS RELEASE THAT SHOWED BLATANT ANIMOSITY AND PREJUDICE. THAT WAS ALL STAGED FOLKS!!!

THE FNM ARE FAKE NEWS IDIOTS: THE DESTROY THE SHANTYTOWNS WAS FAKE NEWS -- NEVER DID IT. THE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ANOUNCEMENT WAS FAKE NEWS AND THE TAX THE WEBSHOPS WAS FAKE NEWS. THEY KNOW WHAT TO DO -- A NATIONAL LOTTERY WOULD OVER NIGHT MAKE WEB SHOPS NEARLY OBSOLETE. BUT THEY DON'T DO IT BECAUSE THEY LIKELY HAVE OWNERSHIP IN THE WEBSHOPS. FOLLOW THE MONEY FOLKS, NOT THE WORDS!!!

Interesting. It's the first thing I thought as well. I thought the sliding scale was a slight of hand too, meaningless without telling us where on the scale the operators actually fell. But I don't want to stay to long in conspiracy theory land, I actually told someone today that when the tax is actually implemented only then will I believe they intend to tax them.

This is like Deja vu from January 2013. "Shut all webshops down!". Oh there's an injunction? Ok carrying no smartly...

It's beginning to look like you are right. It is SO obvious that these gambling houses are destroying what's left of our economy and society. Birdiestrachan is right that Government CAN close the gambling houses and clean up the shanty towns if it actually had a mind to so do.

Yep. I don't mind living in conspiracy theory land, because Bahamian politicians are such corrupt liars, you have to. None of them are truth seekers. None of them want to stop crime, want freedom of information, want campaign finance reform. When you see a continual trend of "wrong minded" people in office, what else can you do. How many times will this Attorney General lose in court? He loses to everyone and on everything!!! Why is he even there?

Idiot millionaires. Doesn't sound right. Not easy to become a millionaire. So, these dudes make rules to tax the webshops without first having their lawyers check the laws. Remember, the FNM have a majority and can change any law they please. They could easily ensure that the Gaming Act provides for sliding scale taxation. When you see millionaires making idiotic mistakes, mistakes they would never make with their private affairs, one has to think something else is at play. One has to know that these men are corrupt and giving us the people Fake News about taxing the web shops and getting rid of shanty towns.

If the Minnis led FNM administration was to lose the government today there are several MP’s and other government appointees who can easily find themselves before the courts. Not necessarily because of corruption or mismanagement in office but because of the sloppy and unprofessional manner they are actually handling the people’s business. And of course the Web shops fiasco will be among the top of the list. Why so much excessive taxes on black owned Bahamian web shops and not a fraction of a percent increase in taxes on the foreign owned casinos. Ok wait now, they changed their word and now say they needed to control the growth and profitability of the web shops. Originally they said the government was broke and needed additional revenue. Then this over-the-hill empowerment project. (Aka Urban Renewal 3.0). Exactly who will benefit from it and who is the intended target? It appears like, with their housing program, little or none in The projected areas will qualify. So businesses, especially, in those areas will find themselves at a greater disadvantage having to fight against New money and new businesses. And the red tape for homeowners in areas may not fare much better. Then while government is claiming to have removed customs duties off clothing and shoes, again it only giving the exemption to businesses that are current on all their taxes. Yet thei claim is they realize the number of clothing and shoes stores that are going out of business and this is to help them. So the stores that were struggling all along now have to compete against the bigger stores that pay no duty while they still have to pay. Even the UBP never exercise this level of economic discrimination, and so blatantly. Then there’s the Lucayan hotel in Freeport... was this the best option for government to buy it with the possibility of having to spend millions to get it market ready and open? Wouldn’t it have been better to get a company, like Wynn, or some other hotel operator to the table and government make a one time spend to secure the sale of the hotel to them and let them do the repairs and operate the hotel? And the people of the Southern Bahamas in the main time say they have been totally ignored after hurricane devastation. Then there’s the total melt down of the BEC board. What is the real reason behind it? And let’s not forget Oban? And these black hawk helicopters buzzing sleeping communities and claiming to be looking for drugs and drugs dealers. Roads are still in shambles. Bahamas air at least two weekends of 16 hours flight delays.. a new record? National Debt still climbing So what then are the successes of this government. Well they did take the burden of carnival off the tax payers backs. The murder rate continues to by down but may still be double digit.

Ma Comrades, me holding back my complete outrage blow me cool over whole media play interaction between Imperial red shirts crown members cabinet...... that is until KP and Carl Wilshire - signs off allow government employees open Payroll Deduction Accounts at Numbers Houses.... Any reason we government should be allowing Numbers Players be opening Deposit Accounts at Gambling Joints.... that iis unless we elected MP's - done lost all they common sense marbles.