tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post116303633291099460..comments2024-03-28T04:04:03.006-07:00Comments on Paying attention: Campbell's $1,000 baby gift weird policyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-1163536519901675412006-11-14T12:35:00.000-08:002006-11-14T12:35:00.000-08:00Several years ago I heard of a concept to have all...Several years ago I heard of a concept to have all post-secondary eduction be free (though the students would have to keep up a certain grade level). The idea was to add a 1% income tax to those students after they're generating income, for the rest of their lives. Paying 1% of your income is a lot easier to swallow than a huge student loan payment -- even if it is until you die (or maybe hit 65?). Grads who make less money would pay less, and vice versa, i.e. community newspaper reporters vs. orthdontists. <BR/>I'd rather see $1000 put aside for each baby to be kept in an RRSP until 65. With compound interest for 65 years, that would be a great help to those who are unable to contribute to an RRSP or who don't have company pensions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-1163102101796024732006-11-09T11:55:00.000-08:002006-11-09T11:55:00.000-08:00In our family we have seen three grandkids getting...In our family we have seen three grandkids getting hosed by Campbell on tuition. The previous government froze the rates so our grandkids could afford to get into University. Their parents are farmers. The kids start in the fields a a very young age and get paid for their work. Boy do they ever know the value of a buck. As Tuition rose so rapidly, the middle one did summer school as well in the last two years as she fully expected the rates to rise again. She is now a teacher and is paying taxes at a higher amount that if she had ended in a fast food joint.The youngest is in first year and the oldest did his masters' in small bits. Full time emplyed in media.<BR/><BR/>This policy will do nothing, the money will disappear, and those kids who don't have the family support, as so many can't afford it, will not go to higher learning. The system just had to change when Gordon took over because the hated NDP had brought it in to give kids a hand up.<BR/>a quick look at the sudent loan program would see kids with massive debt well before they graduate<BR/>Smoke and Mirrors and another vision from GordonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-1163096207436401082006-11-09T10:16:00.000-08:002006-11-09T10:16:00.000-08:00As a parent, I'd much rather see the Premier spend...As a parent, I'd much rather see the Premier spend that money today, on starting to live up to his promise to seismically upgrade all BC schools in the next 15 years.<BR/><BR/>That way, we'd at least have some confidence that we'd have school children left to attend university in 2025 if the Big One strikes in the intervening years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-1163084568742148892006-11-09T07:02:00.000-08:002006-11-09T07:02:00.000-08:00Without input, without discussion, another out of ...Without input, without discussion, another out of the blue and ill-conceived announcement. The fans cheer! Just the administration of such a program will eat up dollars that could be invested in the students you see in classrooms right now, today. <BR/>Having two sons attending university (4th and 6th years) I can tell you that Campbell's policies with regard to post secondary education have only hurt young (less well off) British Columbians, while helping none (except perhaps the children of those who have enjoyed 5 figure tax cuts these last several years). <BR/>I agree with the first poster and would add that every policy of Campbell's has been ideologically motivated, to hell with the repercussions on the lives of real people here and now.<BR/>I thought that when the economy improved, so were services and programs also to be enriched and improved. <BR/>Here is a leader who ignores or even exacerbates the problems of students today, and pretends to be concerned with the welfare of those that are not yet born? <BR/>Who is he kidding?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-1163046746974472192006-11-08T20:32:00.000-08:002006-11-08T20:32:00.000-08:00I suspect it is an ideologically driven stalking h...I suspect it is an ideologically driven stalking horse for expanded use of "private accounts" to fund education and health care in the future. Having put in the seed money to establish the account, it will be up to the citizen to make his account grow using his or her own funds. It sounds something like Bush's so far discredited attempt to replace the existing Social Security program in the US with private accounts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com