Yup. Stumpy Davis has set the stage for much outright theft to come.

These laws should be ignored because they are so blatantly unconstitutional and an outright assault on basic private property rights.

Governments that stop respecting the most basic property rights and start seizing the vehicles and homes of the citizenry under threat of imprisonment no longer represent or serve the interests of the people and fully deserve to be deposed one way or another.

This latest budget unabashedly shows that The Bahamas is for sale to foreigners by the elitist political ruling class and their wealthy cronies and favoured friends who stand to benefit from the influx of foreigners. We have a limited and ever dwindling supply of inhabitable residential property with fewer and fewer Bahamians being able to afford even the most modest home.

And to think the PLP have always held themselves out to be progressives who represent the interests of the poor "have nots" in our society. Nothing could be further from the truth!

Davis is in fact a pathological liar and Simple Simon takes his cue from him.

This article is very poorly written and The Tribune's business editor, Neil Hartnell, should be ashamed of himself. Frankly I am left to wonder whether it was deliberately written so badly as to intentionally mask by confusion the great significance and importance of the unexpectedly low amount of VAT collected on high-end properties, not to mention the absurdly ridiculous explanation given for it by Davis.

Corruption under this Davis led PLP government is beyond rife. And while our minister of finance (Davis) is unable and unwilling to transparently account for enormous actual vs budget discrepancies, he goes about increasing the tax burden on the Bahamian people in any and every way that he possibly can.

Simon Wilson lacks the temperament and demeanor necessary to properly and fairly discharge his responsibilities and duties as Financial Secretary. No individual Bahamian or enterprise conducting business in The Bahamas should be subject to decisions made by a government official who has a short fuse and is incapable of controlling his or her anger and rage. This is especially true in the case of a Financial Secretary who is likely to be prone to abusing his office to make life extremely difficult and miserable for anyone that he may choose to target in a malicious or vindictive way for the purpose of satisfying his innate uncontrollable rage and anger.

Truth be told, Simple Simon has outrightly told so many untruths to the press and public over the years that he fully deserves to be called out for what he truly is, i.e., nothing but a liar, and an ill-tempered one at that!

As a government official the bar is naturally higher for Simple Simon to behave with decorum and not lowly stoop to threatening or intimidating any member of the public, including any member of the free press who happens to be understandably frustrated by the countless well-documented instances in which Simple Simon has been caught telling bald-faced lies.

If Davis had a "real pair" as opposed to a "rat-sized pair" he would have long ago told thin-skinned Simple Simon to submit his resignation letter or, better still, sign up for a tour of duty in Haiti where he could unleash his pent-up violence in combatting violent gang members.

And The Tribune should be writing an official letter to the Office of The Prime Minister complaining of Simple Simon's unwarranted threatening behaviour towards one of its reporters and citing specific examples of the numerous occasions on which Simple Simon has outrightly lied to the free press and the public it represents.

This dumber-than-dumb buffoon of a PM we have as minister of finance is telling public sector employees their salaries are too low which is tantamount to telling all employees and businesses in the private sector that their taxes are too low.

Apparently Stumpy Davis is not the least bit concerned about the grossly unfunded pension pension plans of public sector employees just as he is not the least bit concerned about the grossly unfunded pension liabilities of the national insurance fund for private sector employers and their employees.

And of course Stumpy Davis simply refuses to acknowledge the unsustainable level of both the government's internal Bahamian dollar denominated debt and its foreign currency denominated external debt, all the while continuing to grow the size of our already grossly over-bloated and very costly government. Few are more incompetent and dishonest than the increasingly bloated looking Stumpy Davis.

> In its latest human rights report, the United States accused the country of failing to effectively implement laws related to contracts and procurement. The report said the country has limited enforcement of conflict-of-interest and anti-corruption clauses in government contracts.

This last sentence of Rashad Rolle's article says all there is to say about Stumpy Davis's hot air pretenses about the success of the failed eProcurement platform.

When it comes to not telling the truth, the trio of Stumpy Davis, Shuffling Halkitis and Simple Simon really take the cake.