Liberals Want Roaylties for Bottled Water
grainfedprairieboy @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:37 pm
Collect royalties for bottled water, Liberals propose
I guess the local Liberals reckon aggressive over taxation, inferior labour/productivity and poor market position aren't bad enough for the companies there already and are trying to give them another reason to move to greener pastures.
Wullu @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:49 pm
Been told yet today? Consider it done. 
grainfedprairieboy @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:57 pm
Wullu Wullu:
Been told yet today? Consider it done.
Wullu @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:20 pm
$1:
inferior labour/productivity
You may be the be all and know all when it comes to the flatlands but you have proven over and over you know SFA about the Eastern end of this country.
Get back to me when you can back up that bullshit statement.
Wullu @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:25 pm
And for the record, yeah it is a stupid idea, but that sorta defines the NS liberal party.
ridenrain @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:31 pm
This just looks like a shameless tax grab to me.
grainfedprairieboy @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:32 pm
Wullu Wullu:
$1:
inferior labour/productivity
You may be the be all and know all when it comes to the flatlands but you have proven over and over you know SFA about the Eastern end of this country.
Get back to me when you can back up that bullshit statement.
Flatlands?
Anyway,
The Government of Canada (under the Liberals) wrote:
"Nova Scotia's GDP per capita, a measure of standard of living, was $25 560 in 2000 — well below the national average and the second lowest provincial GDP after Prince Edward Island.
Labour productivity, the average level of output produced per hour worked, is a major determinant of standard of living. Labour productivity in Nova Scotia was about 22 percent lower than the national average."
Every statistic I looked at showed nothing had changed and that three quarters of the entire provinces economy is based on the service sector.
I'll accept your apology that is unlikely to come anytime soon but knowit is your reluctance to recoqnise your problems that exasperate them.
grainfedprairieboy @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:33 pm
Wullu Wullu:
And for the record, yeah it is a stupid idea, but that sorta defines the NS liberal party.
Oh, so after you have a go at insulting me you decide to be rational. (BTW, that sorta defines all Liberals.)
Arctic_Menace @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:37 pm
Wullu Wullu:
You may be the be all and know all when it comes to the flatlands but you have proven over and over you know SFA about the Eastern end of this country.
Get back to me when you can back up that bullshit statement.
Get back to me when you can back up that bullshit statement.
GFPB GFPB:
I'll accept your apology that is unlikely to come anytime soon but knowit is your reluctance to recoqnise your problems that exasperate them.
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Psst...GFPB...You also trouble recognising your problems. Everyone does. You're not God...
Arctic_Menace @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:38 pm
$1:
Oh, so after you have a go at insulting me you decide to be rational. (BTW, that sorta defines all Liberals.)
You sooooooooo have gone and done it now.
You said the magic "L" word that transforms Wullu into the Hulk...
Wada @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:44 pm
Do we have any sort of taxes on other natural resourses?
Fishermen have to buy a lisence. Mining, oil and gas all pay. I'm not sure that we all don't pay with our water bills so I don't think I'd refer to the idea as a "shameless tax grab". It might be double taxation. 
Knoss @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:45 pm
Wouldn't municipalities and home owners also have to pay royalties?
What about water which runs intot he US?
Wada @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:47 pm
Arctic_Menace Arctic_Menace:
$1:
Oh, so after you have a go at insulting me you decide to be rational. (BTW, that sorta defines all Liberals.)
You sooooooooo have gone and done it now.
You said the magic "L" word that transforms Wullu into the Hulk...
May I join you.
grainfedprairieboy @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:53 pm
Wada Wada:
Do we have any sort of taxes on other natural resourses?
Fishermen have to buy a lisence. Mining, oil and gas all pay. I'm not sure that we all don't pay with our water bills so I don't think I'd refer to the idea as a "shameless tax grab". It might be double taxation.
Fishermen have to buy a lisence. Mining, oil and gas all pay. I'm not sure that we all don't pay with our water bills so I don't think I'd refer to the idea as a "shameless tax grab". It might be double taxation.
Water is a funny thing. You buy it, can get irrigation rights or pull it out of the ground for free. I don't know where NS bottlers source their water but I have a perception that it is polluted. (Because I know almost all ground water in New Brunswick is so by extension)
Regardless, the problem is that a government would consider to unraily tax one industry over another. The article stated that brewers and pop manufatures wouldn't be included.
BTW, Halifax is my second favourite city to visit outside of Alberta.
Knoss @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:02 pm
$1:
Fishermen have to buy a lisence. Mining, oil and gas all pay. I'm not sure that we all don't pay with our water bills so I don't think I'd refer to the idea as a "shameless tax grab". It might be double taxation.
Water bills are low due to provincial and federal subsidisation of municipal water systems. It would be a lot more expesive to dig a well, as is done in rural Canada.