NDP release election policy...assault on the taxpayer begins

Here is the direct link http://www.bcndp.ca/files/u108/BCNDP09_Platform_2009-_Final-April9_last3.pdf read it and understand why you cannot vote for these incompetent fools.

Carole James has released a new plan today that breaks their commitments to

balancing the budget in three years, introduces new taxes, and pursues

job-killing strategies in our industries and small businesses.

This is not a platform -- it is a plank they are asking British Columbians

to walk off. It's dishonest, it's not credible, and it will result in

long-term deficits on our children and will kill more jobs at a time when we

need jobs the most.

Here are some examples:

Their plan is dishonest - its' a recipe for endless deficits, and breaks

their promise on a balanced budget

* They have broken their promise to have a balanced the budget within

three years. The NDP all stood up in the House and voted for that

legislation just two months ago

* Their plan puts $3.5 billion in new spending on taxpayers over the

next three years with no strategy to get out of the hole. It is a recipe for

unending deficits under the NDP.

* They have already broken key promises - for example, they are only

providing a short term "tax holiday" to small business instead of cutting

long-term taxes for these job-creators; meanwhile they are laying $450

million in costs on them through minimum wage policies.

* They are counting on new taxes, revenues and "reallocations" that

just don't exist. They are demanding $1 billion in taxes from industry that

they are underminign with their policies. They are looking to strip a

further $1.2 billion from government spending on top of the $1.9 billion

government has already committed to cut.

* They lied about eliminating the carbon tax. In fact, in 2011 they

are introducing a new carbon tax called the "emission pricing" tax that will

attack rural industry like mills, mines and farms that employ thousands of

workers

Their plan is just not credible - their research is bad, their assumptions

are wrong, and the plan doesn't add up.

* There is no plan to get BC back to surplus - it is a "spend, spend,

spend" agenda without any restraint.

* Their facts are just wrong. For example, they say the carbon tax is

worth $1.8 billion over three years - it's actually a $2.3 billion hit. That

is a $500-million error in their plan on one page alone!

* They claim they can balance the budget by taxing industry to

increase government revenues - but they are attacking the same industries

that provide those revenues with $1 billion in new taxes.

* For example, they are putting over $400 million in new taxes on oil

and gas even though those industries provides over $2 billion a year in

revenue to government because of competitive taxes. This will drive industry

out of BC and ultimately turn off those revenues to government.

* They claim they will fund much of their plan through their "Green

Bond" program that asks citizens for their money to have government invest

on their behalf. The NDP's last B.C. bond program failed and cost taxpayers

$143 million because it did not work - and Carole James wants to do it

again.

This plan is a job killer - they advocate policies that hurt industry and

small business, and then expect those businesses to pay for the NDP's plan.

* There is no plan to create sustainable jobs - only to attack the

private sector to fund their spending spree.

* For example, they are levelling $1 billion in new taxes on our

rural industries - oil and gas, mining, clean energy and agriculture - at a

time when they need help the most. This includes $400 million directly on

the oil and gas sector, $75 million on the clean energy sector and $185

million in new corporate capital taxes - a tax that was eliminated because

it was a job-killer in the 1990s.

* Their new $250-million "emissions" tax is a new carbon tax is a

direct attack on rural BC - it will tax lumber mills, pulp mills, mines and

agriculture. That will kill jobs.

* They have violated their promise to cut small business taxes -

opting for a one-time "tax holiday" of less than 0.5% compared to

government's commitment to cut small business taxes to the lowest in Canada

by 2012. And they are levying $155 million in new costs on private liquor

retailers across B.C.

* They include veiled measures that will further hurt businesses,

including changes to employment standards reducing flexibility and raising

costs, and will seek increases to WorksafeBC premiums and payouts.

* Meanwhile, they are still maintain job-killing policies including:

o Raising minimum wage which will cost small business $450 million a year

and eliminate tens of thousands of jobs.

o A moratorium on IPPs that will kill thousands of future jobs and

billion in new investment.

o Scrapping the Softwood Lumber Agreement, jeopardizing thousands of

jobs.

o Opposing job creating infrastructure projects - whether it's the Port

Mann bridge, the South Fraser Perimeter Road, BC Place, or private sector

projects like the Kitimat port and pipeline.