{"id":245390,"date":"2004-06-01T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/06\/fnm-expresses-doubts-over-plp-budget"},"modified":"2004-06-01T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2004-06-01T16:04:14","slug":"fnm-expresses-doubts-over-plp-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/06\/fnm-expresses-doubts-over-plp-budget","title":{"rendered":"FNM Expresses Doubts Over PLP Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the national deficit at $164 million, some government critics refuse to believe the announcement that an &#8221;imminent&#8221; surge is the Bahamian economy will make it unnecessary to raise taxes or introduce new ones.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAppearing on the Sunday evening talk show Jones and Company, the opposition Free National Movement&#8217;s Deputy leader Sidney Collie said the Progressive Liberal Party&#8217;s budget scares him, because &#8221;the ordinary Bahamian hears no new taxes, but in the following breath we hear we are reviewing all of the areas where taxes have not been collected&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><P><B>Source: Felicity Ingraham, The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tthe ordinary Bahamian hears no new taxes, but in the following breath we hear we are reviewing all of the areas where taxes have not been collected&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}