TJ Burke: New Brunswick Property Taxes Suck!

Feeling NBers [tax] pain or inflicting it on them?

From Say It Like It Is: "Now, generally I don't complain about taxes, but holy cow what a tax burden I am facing this year! I know many other New Brunswickers saying the same thing."

Huh? You mean to say TJ needed to glance at his property tax bill to figure out what all of us NBers have known all along? That being, that we are burdened to death by gouging liberal tax policy.

INCREDIBLE!

Anyway, I know the blogger general to be a very heady guy, in other words, my gut tells me that something else is at play here?

Methinks Jack Mintz will be rolling out his green paper soon (a government sponsored study on tax competitiveness), and judging from the staged sympathetic comment above, you can bet that the Assessment Act will likely be front and center; not to mention, you can bank on the fact that Boudreau et al. will treat the study as if it is already passed legislation, in that, they will take credit as being great advocates of lower taxes without actually doing anything concrete (hoping the public will quickly engulf their rhetoric and forget about their record to date). Let's just say that would be quite a stretch for the only Canadian provincial/federal government to raise taxes in '07.

I think the most logical next step (that this report will ultimately show) will be for Mr. Boudreau to resign, especially since his policies were based on shaky forcasting which cost NB taxpayers a hefty price.

Update

I guess property taxes suck so bad in New Brnswick that it shouldn't even be talked about or mentioned in our neck of the woods...not even by Burke himself?? Huh? Anybody? Bueller?