I agree with that assessment on the surface, but remember that the Bahamian economy is not structured in a traditional way as well. The idea with having tariffs as a big revenue generator was to avoid having an income tax, which was itself born out of the need to market the Bahamas to wealthy Westerners looking for a tax haven. Needless to say that plan worked very well, and despite the destruction of the offshore banking industry, we still are a leading choice for wealthy Westerners looking for a jurisdiction to live in for tax purposes. The real estate industry is booming right now due to all the Americans fleeing the Biden disaster and I even know Canadians that are biting the bullet of conversion fees and moving here to escape the Trudeau dictatorship in Canada. If anything, we need to have even more incentives to attract big money here because the big money is trying to get out of the US right now.

IMO the tariffs should have been lowered drastically after the implementation of VAT, and we should have completed the WTO accession process while negotiating during the accession to protect certain industries from foreign competition. The whole idea of implementing VAT was to be a stepping stone to WTO accession, but needless to say I don't think that will happen in any of our lifetimes.

I do not consider homosexuality a mental illness, it is more of a perversion in the same vein as gluttony, fornication, alcoholism, etc. Everyone has their own struggle, some have issues with drink, fornication, greed, anger, pride, and some just happen to be attracted to the same sex for whatever reason.

That being said, transexualism is without a doubt mental illness. You have to be completely insane to want to cut your dick & balls/breasts off. A million surgeries is not going to turn you into the opposite sex. A male transexual is still going to have male pattern baldness no matter how much estrogen he takes. Biology does not lie.

https://twitter.com/TullipR/status/1536…

Read that Twitter thread if you want to find out about the horrifying BS that these people are trying to promote. This is what they are trying to sneak into our country and I will be damned before I let it happen.

This is nothing to do with being called clean or unclean, the fact of the matter is that there is no way to claim that you follow Christ and approve of sodomy.

I admit that I get a bit heated on this topic, but only because the filth and perversion being mandated is truly disgusting. Any true follower of Christ would recoil with anger if they found out about "drag queen story hour" and the pedophiles that frequent these events as well. The US military is now mandating that recruits shower with "pre-op" transexuals; would you let your daughter shower with a naked dude who is mentally ill? I thought so.

No one buys this "love is love" "we just want to be accepted" BS anymore. We see the true face of this evil movement. No one is harassing homosexuals in this country, they are free to practice buggery all they want and no one is coming to lock them up. What they really want is access to your children and mandated brainwashing into this cult in our educational system.

For crying out loud, there is a whole month dedicated to this perversion in the West and it still is not enough. When is it ever going to be enough for them?

The thief on the cross was fully contrite and repented of his sins. Zaccheus (sp) gave all of what he stole + more back after he dined with the Lord. The prostitutes that followed Jesus did not live a life of prostitution after decided to follow Him, they were fully contrite of their sins and changed their life. A good example in this regard is St. Mary of Egypt.

I don't consider someone who struggles with an attraction to the same sex to be a sodomite necessarily, it would depend on whether they partake in homosexual acts or not. Even those who have partaken can in fact be saved if they are truly contrite for their sins and live a life showing that they have forsaken their old ways. No one who is an active sodomite will get to Heaven though, that is without a doubt. Creating false teaching to cozy up with the world will not change that either.

Tal,

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Romans 1:24-32

If you want to read into the Didache, which is what the Apostles themselves used prior to the compilation of the Bible

Didache 2:2

""Thou shalt do no murder; thou shalt not commit adultery"; thou shalt not commit sodomy; thou shalt not commit fornication; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not use magic; thou shalt not use philtres; thou shalt not procure abortion, nor commit infanticide; "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"; "

I am not Protestant, so I do not adhere to Sola Scriptura in any event. Catholics and Orthodox are the only two groupings that can claim valid apostolic succession, and saints of both speak in no uncertain terms of condemnation of homosexual acts. They would balk at the thought of homosexual "marriage" because marriage is a Sacrament given by God himself and a civil government has zero authority to legislate it. They would balk at no fault divorce, today's promiscuous culture, and quite a lot of other things I might add as well.

If you truly believe in Christ, there is no way that you can support homosexual "marriage", "unions" or whatever charade that is the flavour of the day. That may make you uncomfortable at first, especially since it puts you at odds with many in the Western world, but you have to conform your life to Christ, not alter teaching to conform to the world. All of the Lord's disciples left him when he proclaimed that no one would be saved unless they eat his body and drink his blood, even the Apostles themselves thought this a hard teaching to accept. We all have our struggles to get/stay holy, but we cannot twist teaching to approve of our sinfulness. God is not fooled and we will stand condemned for the lives that were sent to Hell for believing falsehood.

> Increase % of self employed ppl to pay NIB

What are you proposing? To be quite frank, 8.8% is already too high considering that the money is just going to be pissed away anyways.

Also worth nothing that US inflation for June was recorded at 9.1%.

Those of us who warned of the looming economic disaster from careless money printing and asinine lockdowns are being vindicated. Sad to say, but the suffering has only begun.

The real question here is why would anyone of sound mind deny a person a job because of a charge relating to the unconstitutional emergency orders? Definitely should not be a deal breaker considering the insanity of the Minnis administration at that time.

Please tell America to come pick y'all up. We dont want the groomer shit in our country.

I don't know what Bible you read, but sodomy (which not only includes homosexual acts) is repeatedly condemned in the New Testament. It is condemned in the Didache, which precluded the Bible, as well.

No sodomite is ever going to enter Heaven.