Price controlled fresh produce and highly perishable items is VERY risky. All too often the local retailer of that produce have massive loses due to product spoilage, and it is the margins they have at the moment that allow that fresh produce to remain on the table as a viable import. If you lock down percentage markups on those items, many retailers will just stop selling the fresh produce altogether and I don't think that is the desired end result behind this initiative.
Not to worry...once NHI gets going, that nice cooshy medical insurance plan you have at the moment disappears and you need to depend on the guvment dem for ya health!
The big problem here is that if you outlaw it, all that is going to happen is that it drops off the radar and gets swept back under the rug so people can deny that any of this foolishness goes on in the first place. I agree...minors should be protected, but what are the other implications there for situations like this being concealed and buried and people not seeing the true side to our social ills?
Come at me with every law in your book, see what you find...we pay EVERY damn penny of taxes owed, business licenses, duties, property taxes, road traffic fees, insurance, you name it we pay it. It's the fella on the corner smuggling crap in and falsifying invoices you need to be watching out for, driving unlicensed/uninsured vehicles, operating businesses without business licenses, or operating above the VAT threshold and not registering for VAT. Talking SH!T.
I call bull crap on that one...Bahamians just too damn lazy to walk to the designated stop and the bus driver too greedy trying to get that extra fare with stopping every hundred feet to pick up some other lazy bugger.
B_I_D___ says...
Price controlled fresh produce and highly perishable items is VERY risky. All too often the local retailer of that produce have massive loses due to product spoilage, and it is the margins they have at the moment that allow that fresh produce to remain on the table as a viable import. If you lock down percentage markups on those items, many retailers will just stop selling the fresh produce altogether and I don't think that is the desired end result behind this initiative.
On Concern over margins on new breadbasket items
Posted 17 June 2019, 3:45 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
...and this surprises people?
On Ferreira insists low cost homes ‘overpriced’ by nearly $60,000
Posted 13 June 2019, 3:36 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
Not to worry...once NHI gets going, that nice cooshy medical insurance plan you have at the moment disappears and you need to depend on the guvment dem for ya health!
On Union slams Morton’s offer to break dispute deadlock
Posted 13 June 2019, 3:24 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
The big problem here is that if you outlaw it, all that is going to happen is that it drops off the radar and gets swept back under the rug so people can deny that any of this foolishness goes on in the first place. I agree...minors should be protected, but what are the other implications there for situations like this being concealed and buried and people not seeing the true side to our social ills?
On ‘Social media danger must be addressed’
Posted 13 June 2019, 10:03 a.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
Do it!!
On PAYDAY PAYBACK: Student loan debt could force govt to target salaries
Posted 13 June 2019, 10:02 a.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
It definitely seems like BAMSI is a very 'fire friendly' environment...
On Fire hits BAMSI building in New Providence
Posted 11 June 2019, 7:08 a.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
Alcohol, drugs...potentially steroids...will be interesting to hear the toxicology results from that one once published...
On Briton’s death due to heart failure
Posted 6 June 2019, 3:55 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
Nope...shooting in the dark just now, will find out the full list Dec. 31st most likely.
On 'Plastics ban will increase our business costs'
Posted 4 June 2019, 7:39 a.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
Come at me with every law in your book, see what you find...we pay EVERY damn penny of taxes owed, business licenses, duties, property taxes, road traffic fees, insurance, you name it we pay it. It's the fella on the corner smuggling crap in and falsifying invoices you need to be watching out for, driving unlicensed/uninsured vehicles, operating businesses without business licenses, or operating above the VAT threshold and not registering for VAT. Talking SH!T.
On Wealthy Bahamians greatest tax cheats
Posted 31 May 2019, 3:20 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
I call bull crap on that one...Bahamians just too damn lazy to walk to the designated stop and the bus driver too greedy trying to get that extra fare with stopping every hundred feet to pick up some other lazy bugger.
On No more tickets for buses stopping - because there aren't enough stops
Posted 27 May 2019, 6:28 a.m. Suggest removal