The middle class and poor within the community and society CANNOT
continue along with this ruse of a road for new money proposals.
Because in reality it simply represents additional, increased or
new taxes on top of existing ones already carried on the backs of societies overburden individual for property
taxes, rents, home prices, income taxes, gas taxes, sales taxes, GST and HST.
More and increased revenue tools are NOT the answer nor
realistically required.
This so-called big move is simply a ruse to raise new taxes so
that our career politicians with their political parties and non-elected
technocrats, bureaucrats and public service unions can maintain their current
cushy lifestyles on the back of future generations of our youth.
The financial facts already show us that Toronto, Mississauga
and Hamilton etc. do not have the investments required for the maintenance of
the current outdated and much-needed repairs for existing city infrastructures
let alone news ones for road tolls at the expense of our sewers, waters and
hydro systems.
This report is biased and one-sided as it only pertains to new
methods of taxation or increased taxes, in my humble opinion.
No mention of pay as you go financing, zero-based budgeting
process, spending reductions or program eliminations, tax decrease for the property
owners, a GTHA across the board business tax increases for public
transportation services, negotiated austerity packages, councils inability and
unwillingness to implement meaningful and much needed economic structural
reforms, tax evasion by both corporations and citizens, reduction in public
service positions and smaller size councils in line with provincial and federal riding's.
Taxpayers throughout the GTHA are more than open to an open
transparent all-encompassing discussion of government financing and
expenditures.
However unlike the media, unelected technocrats and civil
servants, the citizens in today’s society want to discuss both sides of the
coin, Spending and Taxes along with all options, not just more of the same with new revenue sources.
The gridlock is with those that have only the one view of
seeking more revenues in any form from an already overburdened and taxed out
society and citizenry.
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It's a continual, laughable affair when it comes to politics in this country. The solution is almost always to raise taxes, but almost never to tighten their own belt and hack away at the waste, poor decision making and look at efficiency improvements instead.
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