B.C. cancels $1,000 grocery rebate and pauses some hiring over Trump's tariff threats

[dennism3]

Talk of compensating people for increased prices or job losses due to tariffs, sort of like covid assistance. What about grocery help doesn't do this?. It would have fallen right inline with help. Just a copout after wasting billions and creating the huge deficit, rather than planning for what is to come. Raises for mlas, record bureaucracy numbers but reneg on election promises Well the socalled majority got their mis governors.

[Tack]

Obviously a very common sense move with the uncertainty Trump created. Only trained radical regressive righties would lose their minds over this and go all 'gotcha' on this election promise.

As usual, the NDP in BC are not unwilling to pivot when the data presents that it's necessary. Just like rolling back the decriminalization of drugs, they change as is necessary. Something radical righties can't understand and think that change means something bad and if you said one thing you can never change that.

Well, we said NDP should govern, can we change that now? It was a contract, if you vote for us we will pay you. As simple as that.

No that was not a contract. You seem confused.

[77TA]

Well, we said NDP should govern, can we change that now? It was a contract, if you vote for us we will pay you. As simple as that.

No that was not a contract.

Correct. It was a con job for gullible dupes with their hands out for freebie taxpayer money.

[Tack]

No that was not a contract.

Correct. It was a con job for gullible dupes with their hands out for freebie taxpayer money.

*removed* No one really cared on this rebate, there was no valid other choice for BC with the rag tag Rustad regressive party, aka the fake conservatives.

[77TA]

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[77TA]

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[Angie_W]

Well, we said NDP should govern, can we change that now? It was a contract, if you vote for us we will pay you. As simple as that.

No that was not a contract. You seem confused.

If person A says to person B that if you do something for me, I will pay you X amount of dollars, it is a contract. Later if person A fails to pay, it is a breach of a contract. This is how I was raised. And no, I don't think helicopter money is a good idea. And no, I didn't vote NDP and I never will, because they are fiscally irresponsible, the idea of paying $1000 to everyone was stupid and they broke the social contract with me, which was worse.

[Tack]

No that was not a contract. You seem confused.

If person A says to person B that if you do something for me, I will pay you X amount of dollars, it is a contract. Later if person A fails to pay, it is a breach of a contract. This is how I was raised. And no, I don't think helicopter money is a good idea. And no, I didn't vote NDP and I never will, because they are fiscally irresponsible, the idea of paying $1000 to everyone was stupid and they broke the social contract with me, which was worse.

Voting for someone is never a contract, so no it's not a contract in any way despite what you purported there. You'd be horribly mistaken in thinking it's a contract for what politicians promise. That's never been the case and never will be, no matter the party. All politicians make promises that the can't fulfill, and in this case a politician reconsidered a promise that no longer made sense in the current environment (which didn't exist at the time of the election). Some people think this is a "lie" but this is common sense to change course with the new unexpected information of a radical USA dictator making wild changes.

Radicalists believe this is a bait and switch but they are far mistaken in that it really is a common sense reconsideration.

[MAPearce]

Eby is a socialist scumbag and opportunist . There's no reason that the average , everyday Joe can't get a carbon tax or "grocery" rebate .. He just wants to blame the "other" guy for his own greed .. While he lines his own pockets and those of his cronies

He did give himself and his partners in crime a raise after the last election ....

[Babba_not_Gump]

Eby is a socialist scumbag and opportunist . There's no reason that the average , everyday Joe can't get a carbon tax or "grocery" rebate .. He just wants to blame the "other" guy for his own greed .. While he lines his own pockets and those of his cronies

He did give himself and his partners in crime a raise after the last election ....

Every NDP MLA was given a new title and every one but one was given a raise.
Cabinet ministers were given a $60,000 raise.
Junior ministers were given a $41,000 raise.
14 parliamentary secretaries were given nearly $18,000 a year increases.

And all this after winning ten fewer seats than Horgan had and Eby also has three new ministries.

Bloated, socialist wannabe communists. These NDP never saw a tax or wage increase that they didn't like.

But because of Trump they're not giving us $1000 of our own money back. Could Rustad have been more greedy, more selfish? Not a chance.

[Babba_not_Gump]

If person A says to person B that if you do something for me, I will pay you X amount of dollars, it is a contract. Later if person A fails to pay, it is a breach of a contract. This is how I was raised. And no, I don't think helicopter money is a good idea. And no, I didn't vote NDP and I never will, because they are fiscally irresponsible, the idea of paying $1000 to everyone was stupid and they broke the social contract with me, which was worse.

Voting for someone is never a contract, so no it's not a contract in any way despite what you purported there. You'd be horribly mistaken in thinking it's a contract for what politicians promise. That's never been the case and never will be, no matter the party. All politicians make promises that the can't fulfill, and in this case a politician reconsidered a promise that no longer made sense in the current environment (which didn't exist at the time of the election). Some people think this is a "lie" but this is common sense to change course with the new unexpected information of a radical USA dictator making wild changes.

Radicalists believe this is a bait and switch but they are far mistaken in that it really is a common sense reconsideration.

You go on about the definition of voting vs contracts, some truth there and then you blow your argument up by calling Trump a radical USA dictator.

No, Trump is not a dictator.

[77TA]

The communist definition policeman doesn't know what a dictator is. Lol.

[Angie_W]

If person A says to person B that if you do something for me, I will pay you X amount of dollars, it is a contract. Later if person A fails to pay, it is a breach of a contract. This is how I was raised. And no, I don't think helicopter money is a good idea. And no, I didn't vote NDP and I never will, because they are fiscally irresponsible, the idea of paying $1000 to everyone was stupid and they broke the social contract with me, which was worse.

Voting for someone is never a contract, so no it's not a contract in any way despite what you purported there. You'd be horribly mistaken in thinking it's a contract for what politicians promise. That's never been the case and never will be, no matter the party. All politicians make promises that the can't fulfill, and in this case a politician reconsidered a promise that no longer made sense in the current environment (which didn't exist at the time of the election). Some people think this is a "lie" but this is common sense to change course with the new unexpected information of a radical USA dictator making wild changes.

Radicalists believe this is a bait and switch but they are far mistaken in that it really is a common sense reconsideration.

You are absolutely right about politicians. This is why they need to be changed as often as possible, and for the same reason, diapers need to be changed. We've had NDP in power for too long and they became arrogant enough to promise my tax money to other people (since I wouldn't qualify for it). Not only that, they were arrogant enough to other people by not fulfilling that promise. That means that this group of politicians is overdue for replacement, just like a two-day-old diaper. NDP is unfit for a reason of fiscal irresponsibility (to me) and for their lies (to others), common sense or not.