Three more years of Tax ‘n Spend?
It hasn’t taken Mayor David Miller and his band of socialist sycophants long to start applying the powers they have been given to tax the citizens of Toronto. On the table is a proposal to add a municipal land transfer tax as well as a vehicle registration fee. And the thinly-disguised “green tax” on garbage was more of the same.
The whole campaign run by Miller and his associate Premier Dalton McGuinty to blame other levels of government for their own shortcomings has been wildly successful. Instead of having to clean up their own acts, they just point the finger at the next convenient target without reining in their out-of-control spending.
And as if the taxes themselves weren’t enough to ruin our days, we have to put up with an arrogant, father-knows-best mentality from elected people who are actually public servants!
They work for us, not us for them.
My fear is, since it is beyond most people’s ability to simply pull up stakes and leave the city for cheaper pastures, that we are about to enter a period of frosty relations between the citizens and their local government. Unable to change the situation, the people of Toronto will hunker down and we will lose the ongoing conversation that is the hallmark of a well-governed city.
That will be a real shame, and a very poor legacy for any mayor to leave behind.
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Right on Dave. I am outraged more has not been made in the media of the TTC union (Amalgamated Transport Workers Local 113) winning the legal right to increase our city taxes by having the TTC pay part their Income tax (provincial Health Premium)retroactive to 2004. Also McGuinty won’t change the wording to health tax rather than health premium to avoid this $18 million
TTC union cost to taxpayers.Never mind councillors perks, this city is being financially ruined by CUPE and TTC union wages and benefits we taxpayers
who earn $12.00 per hour and who have to pay increasing taxes to sustain union wages and benefits.
It is outrage!
By Richard Steel on 07.06.07 12:09 pm
Mayor miller has proven over and over and over that he is incapable of running Toronto……he is so out of touch with reality that one can often wonder if he actually lives in this city..the legacy he leaves: a giant parking lot of cars in front of the lake he so proudly claims to have taken back..oh yes that is after you fumble your way through the condos to the man made beach at HT0. But he does seem to have the parking tax under control as there are more meter maids than blades of grass in toronto. PLEASE oh please vote this nightmare out next election.
By Tim on 07.06.07 5:01 pm
Hello Dave,
How is it that David Miller was elected for a second term? (other than there was no viable alternative). Too bad John Tory wasn’t elected back in the day when he was running for Mayor. I think he would have done a great job!
By the way, we have to going flying again!
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Alan
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By Alan Vincent on 07.11.07 4:49 pm
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