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Dawes says...

Correct there is no nation called Palestine, however there is a self governing territory called Gaza. The people who are in charge of this (after an election) are Hamas, as such when Hamas did what they did on Oct 7th, the territory of Gaza did this.

On Israel’s war in Gaza ‘not right’

Posted 27 February 2024, 4:25 p.m. Suggest removal

Dawes says...

The letter takes some truths and then strings them along. Yes Israel went after the Munich Terrorists in a different manner. But at the same time the Olympic Terrorists were not the de facto Government of a nation. By taking this example, the US should not have declared war on Japan after Pearl harbor, but only taken out those responsible. When a nation attacks another nation, all inside both nations are thereby participants.
Of course the above does not deal with the very complex affair of what caused October 7th to happen and how to fix it so these issues never happen again (without eliminating at least one side completely)

On Israel’s war in Gaza ‘not right’

Posted 27 February 2024, 9:07 a.m. Suggest removal

Dawes says...

Is this going to be more aggressive then the last aggressive crackdown? Or a bit less?

Dawes says...

So we are saying that those companies that fall into this category are currently making almost $1 billion a year profit in The Bahamas? Thats a lot of profit.

Dawes says...

Ahh the old it will create 300 jobs. That should do it. Any project that wants to get approved just needs to say that. To hell with Neighbours, or people who traverse the area. We all already know their won't be enough parking as there never is with Town planning.

Dawes says...

Anything like this should be allowed to be sold after the season opens and the profits raised split by whichever Government organization found them. This would give an incentive for those organizations to catch anyone breaking the law.

Dawes says...

And they should take the boat. For the fish laws to work the punishment needs to be so severe that no one wants to risk it.

Dawes says...

I know you need to make it seem as though nothing is happening as it affects your party, but if you are unable to see that there has been a downturn and that there will be effects then you are party blind. Maybe we will be lucky and it will be a few weeks thing, or maybe we won't . But we need to get the message out that yes there is a crime issue, but we are dealing with it (i hope we can soon say that), and that it does not affect our tourists (which seems strange that we are OK as long as its not in certain areas).

Dawes says...

Can we not get any figures as to how many people this top 10% is. How much they think the tax rate should be? and finally how much said tax rate would bring in. I assume it will be if your income goes over a figure (say $50,000) then you pay 15% tax on the amount above. This would be OK to many, as long as the level of service improves dramatically. if you are just taxing people the 15% and then the roads are terrible, the hospitals non existent, schools not educating and crime rampant, i feel many in the tax bracket may say no point. The high tax level countries in the Nordic nations work because people can see the benefits.

Dawes says...

They don't care. As long as the connected person gets the contract and therefore the money they don't care how lousy the service is. Notice that they never tell who you has the contract to redesign the website. no doubt at the cost of hundreds of thousands if not millions. Sure they will throw out the company name, but never the actual owners, as then it will all make sense why it doesn't work.