Never the unions fault, always something else to blame. The quicker we can all go to private solar the better for all of us.

As this became political from a number of years ago, the only way to sort this would be for Government to buy the land off access industries at market price. But they won't want to do that due to cost. From what i have heard this is private land, which means it is the owners property to do with it as they see fit (within town planning rules). If however there is also public access /right of way this must continue.

One thing never mentioned when we talk about growing our own, is are we OK on paying more for food. One of the reasons our farming died is because it was cheaper to import. If local food is going to be more expensive it may not be worth it.

Most calling for income tax, mean income tax on other people and not them. The issue with income tax is do we have the numbers of people earing the correct amount to bring it in. I am sure they have had studies done but these have not been released (or are very hard to find online)

From what i have read they say that is not possible as the person can still charge at the officer. This sounds like a terrible situation where the officer did not want to but had to, I take it they don't have tasers which would have been better. It is very wrong that we dont give those who need it the help they need as situations like these might not happen.

Why do we always have such pathetic politicians.

The belief that a company will willingly pay thousands for a work permit because they don't want a Bahamian is silly and makes no sense. The biggest issue we have is most of our talented people use that talent to get the hell out of here. In the finance industry there are many more Bahamians working over seas (mainly USA, Canada and UK) then there are foreigners over here.

What happens if he buys another VAT free item? Then he has saved even more? The basis of this argument is silly. Yes taxes can be raised on the highest earners and companies, but remember on companies that is always paid for by the customer as they will increase prices to make up for it. On the highest earners they will adjust their spending. The real question is how much tax should we pay for such pitiful service. Scandinavian countries don't mind paying such high taxes because they get great health care, schools, roads, public services etc. Over here we have numerous people talk about raising taxes without addressing how abysmal our services are. When NHI was first discussed the experts said for it to work health care must be fixed first. Of course doing that wasn't good politically so we went ahead with NHI with a collapsing health service, meaning we won't get the correct benefits from NHI.

Perhaps the letterwriter should learn the law. That is US land that the embassy is on, as such they can do this. Anyway i would bet a lot of money that this letter writer is only a supposed Christian, i am sure that there are many of Gods laws that he has broken, but that's OK, as it is only this one that matters. Also for the letterwriters benefit it is not Gay couples having kids outside of wedlock (thats against Gods laws as an FYI).

Most people don't mind paying that level of taxes IF they get the level of service that goes with it. If you pay that level and still have to deal with PMH then there would be issues.