Really though perry. What will I have to spend on myself? You are taxing everything except the air I breathe. You expect me to just be on Earth to pay taxes to maintain your foolish socialist agenda and fund your lavish partying and cronies before I meet my Maker? GO man. Just leave. I hope I see you and all your ministers towing the line at PMH and getting your exams done there too. No more US executive exams and ting for yinna. If it is good enough for us to be forced to swallow this shiyit, it definitely should be good enough for you.

Those 'rich doctors' put in a lot of time, sacrifice, and youth to develop their skills. Why shouldn't they be appropriately compensated for it? If these thugs force NHI and drive down the doctors' hard earned income, is this government willing to compensate them for the large amounts of money spent on the doctors' education? Provide them with free, quality legal services (because God knows the fees charged by the lawyers in this country are outrageous and the services shoddy and disgraceful for the most part)? Compensate them for all the income lost? Provide them with the type of lifestyle they have earned through their skill and chosen profession? You have created new income for accountants and lawyers with VAT but are determined to decimate private health care and private health insurance? You NEED doctors to carry out the health care you damn dummy. Fix the public health care system. Remove all taxes on the healthy foods to make it affordable for everyone to buy. Make it mandatory for these single, unemployed, unskilled and uneducated breeders to be placed on birth control and stop the unfettered production of more dependents on what is increasingly becoming a socialist state you buffoon. Retirement age is sixty-five, and in the public service, after serving at least thirty years. You meet both christie, and you are doing no one any favours trying to establish your 'legacy'. This is already assured. You are an abject failure. You have been successful at nothing other than the shuffle and fooling the gullible of the land. You are the worse thing that has EVER happened to this country. Your legacy is in the destruction of paradise. Under you, we truly became 'Paradise Lost.'

Wish I could click like on this one million times. Get gone, christie!

Agreed. It has finally paid off. Anything to win, right? I guess at the upcoming meet with the public schools they can scout for more talent then. More money! LOL!

Why don't you people just remove the duty off healthy foods to make them affordable for everyone, thus encouraging a healthier nation and less occurrences of the major non-communicable diseases that are killing this country? Knowing full well the extreme hardship such a scheme will put on us all, these buffoons continue to bungle onward with one jacked up plan after the next. Please quit. Ring the damn election bell now cause I can't take no more of this! You are destroying the friggin country. Can't you people see this? Or is it that the gravy train is so rich for you few that the rest of us don't matter? I don't want or need you involved in my health care. You all do a piss poor job now and then want to create a monster like this. Just stop. Serious unrest is going to happen in this country.

Please help me understand why this new tax is needed when we already have a PHA in place to take care of the medical needs of those who cannot take of themselves? Can the finance expert please further shed light on why the duties on healthy foods are not eliminated in order to make them affordable for all, and by doing so, improve the health outlook of all Bahamians? Can we also expound upon the control of cost of services in the legal profession, where fees are absolutely outrageous for often poor services? Please see, Mr. finance guru, the warning put out by your US government about the pitfalls of purchasing property in this country and the scummy activity, economic loss to clientele and astronomical fees incurred through the use of "lawyers" here; embarrassing ad shameful. You people need to leave my money and my health care alone. I should not have to be forced, yet again, to pay for something you all have no business being involved in and especially with your very poor management skills and inability to account for public funds under your control.

Exactly. Bahamians FIRST. Do they not realize that a naturalized Bahamian male, be they of Haitian extraction or otherwise, secure more rights in this land than Bahamian females with familial lines of multiple generations, as soon as they are granted citizenship? I can have a child with a foreign husband outside of this country and expect my offspring to have no rights in the land of my birth and forefathers, and yet these people can? Thank you Sans Souci reader. Politicians, fix this first!

All these companies, gbpc, gbpa, gbuc, have standard, non-committal responses to legitimate concerns raised by the populace, where the offending entity's only objective appears to be to deny responsibility for any wrong doing, and the mess goes on (no pun intended). I have visited in this area when in Freeport and had wondered about that nasty stench. GBPA needs to be honest, take up some of that money collected in those outrageous service charges, and fix this. Only the Lord knows how this affects health. Should make the owners of the port live there and see how they like it. Speaking of stench, on the way down to Pinders Point area the smell in the air is unbelievably awful, and yet they have their harbor located there in the midst of it. Is that really the first thing you want tourists to encounter, together with that ugly industrial area? Everything about Freeport is designed to make money for its foreign administrators; it almost makes no sense to raise concerns about wrong doings as neither the GBPA nor the government (that also collects huge tax dollars from the place while taking a very hands off approach), do anything. Did anyone ever notice how land locked you feel when you get there to Freeport? That's because the most beauteous areas, the beach fronts, have all been allocated for sale and the roads never hug a sea shore except at the very few designated public beaches. The other settlements that are not under the GBPA's control, like High Rock and Freetown and Smith Points or even more so the settlement right next to Millionaires Row, all have streets with unobstructed views of the ocean. Right next door not an inch of the sea can be seen. You would hardly even think you were on an island. Off the point, but just to illustrate that these people have the citizens and residents as the very last thoughts on their minds.

I agree with The Oracle. These people are racketeers, period. Their wealth was attained through illegal means, period. I still cannot fathom how this government thought it was okay to try and pretty up illegality when they could have had a national lottery, which would have been much more beneficial to the population as a whole, as opposed to this. These people have lived luxurious lives while committing a crime, their children, lovers and friends have benefitted massively. Stop the madness. Do what is right. We all know the funds were obtained from illegal means. Confiscate it and put it to use in the public treasury while keeping the politicians' paws out of it. Do the same with all these drug dealers and people who went into the house of assembly dragging their slippers and now are suddenly multimillionaires, calling the shots and getting cuts out of every deal taking place in this land. Create a national lottery for the public benefit and stop playing with these people man. Enough is enough.

"Business license fee breaks": what breaks are we talking about here? There have been no breaks since St George died back in 2004. I believe the Vice President of the Port at that time made great strides in raising the fees on everyone at that time, including essential services where the license fees were very significantly raised. The business license fees go up every few years and the government still has additional license fees to add on top of those so, you see what I'm saying? Of interest, Grand Bahama sends a great deal of tax dollars to the public treasury every year, about 150-200 million dollars per annum, yet very little is returned and they badly need it. Why is that, Mr. Christie? Why is there a new ten percent man in town where potential investors complain about it sir? This country is not your and your crew's personal and private possession, though it seems that that is exactly how it is treated. Also, can we have an accounting for how the money delegated to the Ministry of Grand Bahama is spent? Seems to a lot of people that only a select few are benefitting. None can see how 30+ million dollars each year for the past two years have been spent. Additionally, before any further consideration is taken, ask the port owners whether they would stop pouring all their profits into the Cayman Islands and instead invest it to improve the city of Freeport. Can't be all gravy for them and nothing for the people who live there.