Big city mayors are saying that Canadian families may save 150 dollars a year from a GST cut but their cities are crumbling around them.
The mayors had pleaded with Ottawa to give them one cent on the dollar of the GST, instead of cutting the tax to 5 per cent.
One cent of the GST would have amounted to $5 billion dollars into municipal coffers.
Cities across Canada currently get just eight cents of every tax dollar collected, while the provinces get 42 cents and Ottawa takes 50 cents. All of this at a time when the surpluses are piling up in Ottawa.
Toronto Mayor David Miller says that a national consensus is emerging and that the federal government is on the wrong side.
What do you think? Are our cities getting a fair shake? Should the 1 per cent GST cut have gone to cities?
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The mayors had pleaded with Ottawa to give them one cent on the dollar of the GST, instead of cutting the tax to 5 per cent.
One cent of the GST would have amounted to $5 billion dollars into municipal coffers.
Cities across Canada currently get just eight cents of every tax dollar collected, while the provinces get 42 cents and Ottawa takes 50 cents. All of this at a time when the surpluses are piling up in Ottawa.
Toronto Mayor David Miller says that a national consensus is emerging and that the federal government is on the wrong side.
What do you think? Are our cities getting a fair shake? Should the 1 per cent GST cut have gone to cities?
More...