12-13-2018, 08:05 AM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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The world is getting stranger and stranger. Illinois is now talking about a departing resident tax. 50% of your gross income from your last year in Illinois, or 1% of your property value, whichever is greater. They are saying you were under taxed while you lived there and they ran deficits so they have to catch you up.
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12-13-2018, 08:10 AM
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#22
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Marseilles Of The Prairies
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Originally Posted by AnonymousStranger
Sounds like mayor Jack Crompton has been going over-board with that good BC sticky-icky since it's been legalized...
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Was in Whistler for a conference after legalization; it's actually banned from being sold in the city because it's "unwholesome".
Real cast of characters they have on their town council.
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12-13-2018, 08:19 AM
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#23
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Wucka Wocka Wacka
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: East of the Rockies, West of the Rest
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Adorable
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12-13-2018, 08:20 AM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Calgary
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Some Calgarians were concerned about giving events to BC for the 2026 Olympics because of there hostility towards Oil & Gas. Looks like they were right.
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12-13-2018, 08:27 AM
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First Line Centre
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Albertans need to wake up and stop spending money in BC, quit generating PST for these hypocritical BC governments.
There is a huge annual energy conference in Whistler, hopefully it will be moved to a more welcoming location. People fly into it from NY, Toronto, Alberta and elsewhere so it wouldn't make sense (environmentally, of course) to hold it in Whistler.
I wonder how Albertans who own property in Whistler feel about this publication from the Mayor.... What a dummy.
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12-13-2018, 08:34 AM
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#26
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Wow. That man is out of touch with reality. I'm guessing when this was released Murray Edwards did a spit-take thats going to cost him a keyboard.
Did his press officers okay this? Was it a prank on him?
Maybe we should be billing BC for breathing in their forest fire smoke all summer.
We all have emphysema now, lets get a class action going. Lets not forget to sue for emotional hardship as they ruined our ability to enjoy the outdoors for most of the summer.
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12-13-2018, 08:44 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2013
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Much like the pipeline debate there are many, many layers of stupidity to Mayor McCheese's letter.
But I really think my favorite part is where he brags about Whistler receiving 30 million visitors annually. Hey genius, how do you think people get to your town to spend $15 on a small poutine. Ban anyone from coming to Whistler if they used a car or a plane and then we can talk about remittance fees you loser.
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12-13-2018, 08:46 AM
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#28
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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
Much like the pipeline debate there are many, many layers of stupidity to Mayor McCheese's letter.
But I really think my favorite part is where he brags about Whistler receiving 30 million visitors annually. Hey genius, how do you think people get to your town to spend $15 on a small poutine. Ban anyone from coming to Whistler if they used a car or a plane and then we can talk about remittance fees you loser.
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Hes clearly Jack-in-the-Box.
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12-13-2018, 08:48 AM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Calgary, AB
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First, this is obviously a stupid idea.
But I do think it is interesting to see how people across Canada cope with the changing climate. So many people are just looking for someone else to blame and the obvious target is oil and gas fat-cats. I think that the demand side of the oil market is more to blame than the supply side. Our lifestyle over the past 50 years brought this upon us and there is no easy way out. I just find it so interesting that so many Canadians blame someone else for their own (our own) behaviour. These people are trying desperately to cling to a status quo which doesn't exist anymore.
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12-13-2018, 08:49 AM
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Here's some fun facts about Mayor Jack Crompton:
* He's been mayor for all of a month now
* Prior to becoming mayor he was the CEO at Ridebooker which is a ground transportation shuttle service
* Before that Ridebooker, he was General Manager at Whistler Resort Cabs.
So there you go, this guy is a complete and total hypocrite. His entire livelyhood up to this point relied on the climate changing fossil fuels he's now demonizing. In his short time as mayor he has already ensured I'll never spend another dollar in Whistler.
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12-13-2018, 08:55 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: BELTLINE
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Originally Posted by wireframe
First, this is obviously a stupid idea.
But I do think it is interesting to see how people across Canada cope with the changing climate. So many people are just looking for someone else to blame and the obvious target is oil and gas fat-cats. I think that the demand side of the oil market is more to blame than the supply side. Our lifestyle over the past 50 years brought this upon us and there is no easy way out. I just find it so interesting that so many Canadians blame someone else for their own (our own) behaviour. These people are trying desperately to cling to a status quo which doesn't exist anymore.
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Classic human psychology of looking for someone else to blame. People won't crackback on Ford or American Airlines because they can draw a straight line to patronage at those companies. Much better to blame an Oil company that no one ever has direct dealings with as a consumer. Also I can't believe someone invoked climate change to try and grift money from another party. Shocked, shocked I tell you.
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12-13-2018, 08:58 AM
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I'm pretty sure he has the ability to implement a gas tax in Whistler. If he feels so strongly about gas being the problem, wouldn't it make sense to implement a huge gas tax to dissuade people from burning fossil fuels? They could maybe also tax home heating natural gas. Sure, it's a small step in reducing global warming, for a little town like Whistler to have any effect, but you know what they say about environmentalism, start local!
I'm guess he doesn't have the balls to do that, though.
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12-13-2018, 09:09 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Is Whistler going to sue China as well? That's where lots of the 'pollution' is being generated...
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12-13-2018, 09:10 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by Muta
Is Whistler going to sue China as well? That's where lots of the 'pollution' is being generated...
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Its also whats propping up the Bolsa-facade that is masquerading as the BC economy.
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12-13-2018, 09:14 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Muta
Is Whistler going to sue China as well? That's where lots of the 'pollution' is being generated...
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Not if he wants to keep his kidneys.
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12-13-2018, 09:25 AM
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#36
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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But hey, if BC is comfortable continuing to make Jolly old asses of themselves then by all means continue. The whole place has become a caricature by this point.
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12-13-2018, 09:30 AM
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#37
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by codfather
* He's been mayor for all of a month now
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Not the first time and from multiple BC municipalities.
From the article:
More than a dozen B.C. municipalities dating back to 2017 have sent similar letters to energy companies, including an open letter from the District of West Vancouver.
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12-13-2018, 09:48 AM
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#38
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Crash and Bang Winger
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The Alberta Party has a platform item to reduce the number of hipster ######s in Alberta. I think we should have BC pay a large portion of that line item.
I could get behind this if Whistler banned all gasoline and diesel vehicles in its town limits and also banned the use of natural gas and wood burning.
If Whistler took those steps it would show they are serious about reducing their own Green House gas emissions then next summer I would entertain the notion. Of course after one winter everyone would die so there would be no one to ask for money
I feel about this the same way I feel about the UBC paper that came out that said the best way to reduce personal GHG emissions was to not have children. I think the best way someone can reduce their own GHG emissions is to stop breathing. I promise, if anyone willing to do that to reduce their GHG emissions I will personally go out of my way to make a facebook post along with some #hashtag. For realz
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...ices-1.4204206
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12-13-2018, 09:52 AM
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#40
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In Your MCP
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Watching Hot Dog Hans
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Might be time to send them some homeless people again.
Everyone gets a bus ticket!!!
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