That would be none other than Adrian Dix, chief architect of former BC Premier Glen Clark’s successful plan to bankrupt the province, who has been deemed to be on “the leading edge of 18th-century socialism”. So says opponent George Abbott after Dix promised “higher taxes for corporations, [and] a proposed tax shift that sends shivers down the collective spine of the province’s business elite.”
Who would have ever guessed that a devout socialist, heretofore never known for any prowess as an inventor, has figured out how to travel back in time!
N.B. Lest you think otherwise, Comrade Dix has a legion of loyal [low rent*] Bolsheviks who get a thrill up their legs with such talk.
I wouldn’t actually mind if BC elected the NDP again.
Alberta can always use socialist refugees and since they stopped coming from Saskatchewan, the economy just hasn’t been living up to its potential.
Left-leanings governments tend to follow the same pattern when they come to power:
1. Begin by instituting a series of business-hostile policies, including more power for unions, more regulations, and greater taxation.
2. When they realize that businesses are fleeing their jurisdiction and unemployment is rising, institute a bunch of expense, market-distorting incentives such as tax holidays, grants, loans and loan guarantees, and so on to selected business.
They end up with one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake, and that burning smell is the economy going up in smoke.
The “legion of loyal Bolsheviks” is the CBC, which must be privatized to save Canada from collapse. Show your support with a bumper sticker:
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Up until Dix entered the race, I had thought about setting up a “Draft Lingenfelter” campaign. Dwayne has done such an incredible service for Sask NDP – under %30 in the polls. It would be awesome if he could work the same magic for the BC NDP.
If Dix wins, I think he will be able to surpass Lingenfelter with poll numbers below 20%
Dix is a core party apparatchik . . never met a socialist value he didn’t embrace.
He’d be so bad as a Premier he’d make Glenn Clark look good . . . and that takes a lot of doing.
Here too…
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-politics/bc-ndps-dix-tax-proposal-takes-a-big-bite-out-of-big-business/article1892212/comments/
The problem is that the MSM isn’t reporting on the Socialist/Marxist tendancies of Obama’s Govt. so the thrill is still tickleing the fancy of the NDP and LIB “ILK”.
If the likes of Dix or any of the others running for the socialist party get power the road to hell will be paved with Taxes and unemployment.
How naïve that people believe that raising corporate taxes doesn’t affect them.
Corporations don’t PAY taxes – they COLLECT taxes on behalf of the government. Taxing corporations is a way for the government to tax you by pretending to tax someone else.
Any tax that a corporation pays is passed along to its customers – me and you.
Economics 101
“Sooke”‘s comment is good. It is more accurate in some areas than others (the government take on alcohol is bigger than the distillers’, I’ve read), but still accurate.
BC is inherently rather prosperous – how much that depends on pot, I couldn’t say. It prospers
under not-very-good nonsocialist government – Bill van der Zalm comes to mind. Then, the ordinary BCer thinking his prosperity is a fact of nature, puts in the NDP.
The economy dies, etc. etc., and they are voted out. The economy then makes a recovery (a capitalist plot!).
The only mildly interesting thing is seeing how incompetent and corrupt each successive NDP government is.
A new wrinkle is that the economy is to be butchered in the name of the “frail elderly” rather than “the children” – demographic shift there, for sure.
Speaking as a member of the “frail elderly” I say “go to hell”.
With the tax base damaged medical care, and public safety, can only go downward.
Sooke:
I suspect that corporate tax is borne more by the employees than by the consumers. Most companies must compete with imports, and thus they have limited scope to increase prices. So they must reduce costs elsewhere, employee paychecks being one of the few options.
He said their arguments, “represent the leading edge of 18th-century socialism in this province.”
What a great line1!
If Dix ever took control we might just move back to Alberta.
And say goodbye to more businesses and jobs in B.C.
Comrade Dix has a legion of loyal Bolsheviks
Yeah fools and thieves are like weeds and rats….when ya find one ya find another, and another and another……
Referring to late-lapping CBCers and others of the effete left as “Bolsheviks” is really too much of a compliment to them.
The real Bolsheviks were colourful and brutal – bank robbers, killers –
Stalin, the half-crazy ter-Petrossian, Lenin, Molotov, Beria. The CBC are only Bolshevik wannabees.
The marijuana industry loves the NDP.
So basically he’s stuck in the 90s, typical of the leftards wanting to restore their activist’s glory days.
Indeed so, Rose, but we’re just not sure if it’s the 1990’s or 1790’s!
Just laughing at some of the comments from the CBC News, and how delusional some people are. I will be disappointed if the NDP even get one seat next election in BC.
I just don’t see Dix winning…..there’s a memo out there somewhere…..at least everybody would see the true ugly side of the NDP with him, and would remember why they are so dangerous.
Its players like Farnworth and Horgan who, if they win the leadership, can do the soft sell, and hypnotize voters with their warm and fuzzy platitudes. They are both James prototypes. And remind me of Premier Bonehead. Given that scenario, it would be easy to see Farnworth getting backstabbed down the road, to bring in Dix or Jim Sinclair, or some other Bolshevik to put the screws to the BC economy…..
And frankly, Christy Clark would not be much better. She makes my skin crawl!
Dan, just imagine the scenario with Dix running against Clark. Who on earth to vote for then? Ugh!
John Lewis, the original pre1917 effete Bolsheviks were also known as salon or drawing room Bolsheviks. They got a rude awakening in 1918 after the initial euphoria wore off. The real ones took care of them after they defeated the Whites.
RW
Well, that’s the pyrrhic choice, ain’t it?
Last time I held my nose and voted Campbell, and have to live with the fallout. CC is just a Federal Lefty Liberal, no secret there, and my choice is easy, either vote Conservative or scratch my vote. I see how the general public would like her, but the GP is also very shallow and stupid when it comes to politics. Sums up her support rather nicely!
Falcon is my favourite, but I understand how he can rub people wrong, but he’s the best bet for the economy.
Abbott doesn’t do anything for me, but he could win going up the middle and wouldn’t be a bad premier.
De Jong, no thanks, he bought off Basi and Virk.
The NDP likely wins with Farnworth.
Dix is toxic, and would serve up too much fodder for the Libs to feed on. Memos and all
In BC, even the Conservatives are a centre-left Party (will not allow as much as a debate on the sacred trust of 95% public ownership of the province). The only principled Party are the Libertarians and they aren’t really there if you know what I mean!
In my riding to date the only choice has been BC Liberal, BC NDP or BC Green, so holding my nose I voted BC Liberal. Now I think there is no point in even voting unless I am offered an alternative. As for the BC NDP they are even worse than the BC Liberals, and believe me that is nothing about which to write home.
What I’m hoping is for a return of the Marijuana Party that existed in the 2000? BC provincial election. It was essentially a Libertarian party where Marc Emery just supplied the money but didn’t control the party. They got 50,000 votes, most of them in the interior. I’ve voted for the Marijuana Party or Libertarian since the Social Credit party has disappeared from BC.
It if comes down to a choice between Dix and Clark in the next election I’ll probably move to either Alberta or the US regardless of the outcome.
yeah, the choices aren’t great.
That’s why Falcon appears to be the only one that gets it. For one thing, he has openly questioned the carbon tax. That gets my vote right there, along with his ‘get it done’ attitude
I’m a BCer who hasn’t been following the leadership sweepstakes, but if it’s true that Falcon has been openly questioning the carbon tax, as DanBC has said, he would get my vote too….
The Glen Clark NDP government was a major factor in my decision to leave BC for Saskatchewan. I lived through two turns of socialist policies in BC, and would not finish raising my children there.
Perhaps Dix got Joy McPhailure’s support by offering a tax deduction to her husband’s Gay Porno Channel? These are the kind of people who make up the B.C. NDP. When Svend Robinson was charged with theft of a ring (he received no criminal record) Adrian Dix said that he was “…a very moral guy”.
Now that the topic has crossed the bloggo…..Farnworth has been said to be gay (I’ll be nice….) but Keith Baldrey said there were TWO gay candidates for the NDP leadership.
Now, The fact that Farnworth was one caught me a bit by surprise, but, kudos to him for not being a raving flamer. But who is the other code pink member?
Is it Dix? There’s a bit of a lisp there, but Horgan has always struck me as a huffy puffy type…….is it Dix?
BC will become a desert before it wakes up from the Utopian drugs in the water.
The richest place in Canada is run by escapees from mental institutes.
This is what happens when you have a Province full of ex American communists, Hippies with a drug problem, & an attitude in Vancouver only San Fransisco could love.
I won’t even go into the insane immigration policy of BC.
If BC disappeared tomorrow, who would notice? They have so hobbled themselves with social parasites. Most folks think BC is just one big park, with anal Rangers. A Provincial drug Bumfest 24/7.
JMO
Kevin Falcon is an idiot who instituted the 0.05 blood alcohol limit and then wondered why the cops were bothering so many people. He should resign. Screw him.
The coming election will be another fruitless exercise to determine which group of ‘talking heads’ will run the province. Issues facing the province will not receive serious debate and the public will not be any smarter about our reality. All political parties believe in deficit financing which gives them an unaccountability factor which allows them to buy off voters. It is only the richness of our enviroment which allows this situation to continue.
It is the citizens of this province and country who should be held to account for the choices they make. That won’t happen until the politicans lose their credit cards.
When he served as Glen Clarke’s chief enforcer, he was known as Tricky Dix. A reference to Tricky Dick Nixon for those under35….