NDP thinks ’90s are back

Dear editor: It’s clear to me John Horgan and Carole James didn’t excel in mathematics or economics when they were in high school or college.

Once again, we are seeing the ugly NDP calf birthing from the cow’s behind. We are already beginning to see how inexperience, coupled with half-baked budget concepts are about to bring us back to a have-not province we were with the floundering NDP of the 1990s.

The budget they presented, wasn’t proofread by any sane and sound person.

I think Horgan asked James to draft something up to look like a fudget budget and let the masses give it the proverbial “sniff test”— and yes the masses did just that and they really don’t like the way it smells.

The NDP way to kick start the economy is to dream up new taxes to take away your hard-earned money and give it the lazy and underachievers.

The hugely unpopular speculation tax is the beginning of the alienation of our friends and fellow Canadians whom have had the courage to do well in life and enjoy a nice home in B.C. during the summer (or winter), where they contribute to the local economy for a few months and the rest of the year, do not use our roadways, schools and all other infrastructures that their speculation tax dollars would pay for.

They love their homes and don’t want to rent them out to strangers for eight months then have to boot them out for the summer.

I wonder if Horgan and James thought of that concept? Many of these so called speculators have been here, speculating for 20-30 years now.

The idea of the affordable housing strategy must have been ill conceived at a Grateful Dead concert by John Horgan himself, as the idea is as grandiose as a bad acid trip.

Has the premier at any time told us how we are going to pay for this?

Horgan says it will cost $7 billion over 10 years (yes that means you have to vote him in again twice for this to happen).

The feds will have to chip in a third of the money. Municipal governments will have to donate land and Crown land is in short supply in the Lower Mainland.

Maybe the NDP are going to build all these new homes in the far North?

According to some reports (CTF, Crown Land Registry, UBC’s Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate). the true cost will be more, like $15 to $30 billion, if they need to buy Crown land.

I wonder why the NDP sees such a need to expedite housing starts when there are only 15,000 on the BC Housing wait list?

The way I see it, the NDP saw how much of a cash cow the speculation tax has become in Vancouver and because they have little to no experience on how to run our wonderful province, they chose this road which will lead to their demise in the next provincial election.

Doug Rosen, Kelowna