Birdie, one of those people who believes it is OK for you to do wrong if the other person has too. As a note Birdie you can say both sides have done wrong and be right. Christie was wrong to legalize gambling after asking the people. He should have just legalized it with no referendum (sorry opinion poll), and no amount of wrong by the FNM will change that.

In addition what the state of the power lines / supplies are etc. If Emera is higher however this is due to them mainlining their lines and supply then it maybe OK. If they are higher and they have a massive maintenance debt that will need to be paid by customers then not OK. We all know BPL is over a billion in debt which is on us, and that doesn't even take into account the amount they need to spend to bring their fixed assets up to par.

Great argument. Take it you also don't like the PLP as they brought VAT in.

But surely all this should be known. There is no way a sensible government would make a decision like this without knowing the impact on those to benefit. Unless they were only looking at the political benefit and didn't care about anything else.

Any plans on what to do with the roads due to the increased traffic? That road is bumper to bumper most evenings. Any plans on increasing the nearby government school to handle the extra children? Yes homes are needed, but the government has always taken a build it and the rest will deal with itself. Hence the reason why traffic is so bad across the island. In the near future we will soon reach complete gridlock. Guess it don't matter if you can have a siren and just drive through it all. Finally this $30 million equates to over $200k per house. And this is when the land is free.

This article has done nothing to show how they will get to the 32%. Another if you say it, it will happen article, with nothing of substance being done.

I thought they lost the one where they promised that?

But how will certain people be able to make all the money to contribute to our political parties?

Maybe just maybe if NIB was not used as a political toy it would be properly funded. There are countless disused buildings that NIB have bought for the benefit of the previous owner. There is no benefit to Bahamians to own them. Then the amount of times NIB has invested in Government owned enterprises and got little to no pay back from them is also countless. Until they eliminate political interference in NIB and stop the belief that they can just get Bahamians to pay more it will be a failure. So the NIB director can pontificate all she wants about companies not paying their share, the biggest cost to NIB is political and she has not tried to stop it.

I said have certain items VAT free. On Real property get rid of the upper limit, if you get rid of the $300,000 exemption then if you are in a $300,005 you are getting a full hit.