All of this money originated in bootlegging. and then it was invested wisely instead of frittering it away a lavish lifestyle. very much unlike the current numbers boys. and why do you not mention all the PLPs who raped the bahamas tax payer's money and left us $8,000,000,000 in debt to the IDB. The UBP didn't stick you with 12% VAT - that is the result of decades of PLP looting and you know it. perhaps you personally benefitted from it too?

i can't believe you would compare symonette to Hitler? trying to incite race riots hey?

this is all hearsay and mostly false. symonette made all of his money from bootlegging and then investing in the bay street waterfront no govt' contracts. when the UBP handed over the reins of the country (in one of the most non-violent transitions in the world) the Treasury had a substantial surplus. within 5 years of PLP rule the Bahamas Treasury was broke and borrowing money. The beginning of hte PLP era is why we now have $8,000,000,000 in debt to the IDB and 12% VAT. your 12% VAT is not a result of Symonette and the UBP. It is directly a result of poor governance and fleasing of the peoples taxes by the PLP and FNM. stop spreading disinformation. read a real book and not a fake one.

glenys is a straight up gangster and you know it. some of the stories are incredulous.

So you support putting people in jail for the devil weed? And you don't support taking the money out of drug cartel hands and putting into gov't coffers. It is simple economics.

So you support putting people in jail for smoking a little grass? shame on you.

you neglect to address the most important issue of ruining young men and women's lives for having a little spliff. Are you saying you support locking people up for a little grass? if so shame on you.

And since we are on teh subject. equating a $10,000 tax dodge to a $3,000,000 bogus government contract is a bit of a stretch. one is tax avoidance, the other i outright theft from gov't. All them MPs is be dodging the taxman. no property tax, no BEC bill, free water, need i go on? Mr. Allen shoudl go sit small and rethink what he just wrote.

Mr. Allen needs to sharpen his pencil. where does his 18% come from? seems like that would be much higher. In comparing us to USA keep in mind that 10% of GDP goes towards the military. removing this factor shows the USA tas taxes to run the country equivalent to 20% which is on par with the Bahamas no? and in the US you can get your mail delivered. we can't even get mail in the Bahamas. answer me that please.

they say neccesity is the mother of invention. or is it the other way round