Of course its about taxes......AND GRAVY! LIE-berals need another fifty five billion dollars to buy the love of Ontari-owe high school teachers......with another eighteen unions waiting in line for their billions as well! On a related theme-LIE-berals are desperate to buy the love of formerly LIE-beral friendly Toronto Hogs who are finding their gravy supply inadequate-and without union Hogs and Hog town in their pockets LIE-berals are toast in the next election!
Hogtown greed is so great and their entitlements so huge they really believe they are being treated unfairly! Consider this:
|Here is a nice article illustrating the hypocrisy of Toronto politicians-along with some comments of my own in brackets):
Toronto pays more than its ‘fair share’. By Jerry Agar, Toronto Sun
First posted: Monday, February 13, 2017 05:15 PM EST | Updated: Monday, February 13, 2017 05:26 PM EST
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In fact, Toronto is contributing more tax money than it takes back in services, so it is either uninformed or greedy to suggest Torontonians should pay even more. (TORONTO SUN/FILES)
A popular argument across Ontario is that residents of Toronto don’t pay their fair share of taxes, based on the fact the city has a lower property tax rate than surrounding communities.
Some people outside Toronto have contacted me to say if Toronto residents paid more in property tax, the city would not need so much money from the province, which would be better for everyone.
Indeed, there are many people who love to insist that “other” people do not pay their “fair share”.
It is always these “other” people they believe need to pay more.
In the real world, few of us ever say: “You know, upon review, I am just not being taxed enough.”
If someone does ever say that to you, ask them if they have taken advantage of the opportunity afforded to them to send extra money to the treasury of one or more of the three levels of government — municipal, provincial and federal — to which we all pay taxes.
In fact few people volunteer to pay more.
Toronto itself, for example, offers taxpayers this opportunity and the Toronto Sun reported that in 2013, “218 voluntary donations added up to $19,951”.
But what we can say about Toronto taxpayers is that they pay more in provincial and federal taxes than they get back in provincial and federal services.
(This is utter NONSENSE! This is like the guy who steals your car giving you cab fare to get home! Toronto collects TEN DOLLARS per citizen for every ONE dollar given to other Ontari-owe municipalities in provincial transfer payments. Toronto home owners are the greedy pigs that motivated govt to force MPAC-the municipal property assessment rip off on us-with Toronto IGNORING ORDERS to bring its property tax rates into line with other Ontari-owe municipalities! Scarborough has TWICE the number of hospital beds per population that Durham Region does.)
(Toronto happily pays its cops more than other municipalities-with the same deal for fire firefighters and all other Toronto civil servants. Toronto happily gives out a nice array of costly grants to the "arts community" and to assorted loonie un-civil rights groups such as Black Lives Matter. If Toronto needs money so badly then maybe they ought to cut back on funding for idiot artists and lunatic lobby groups! And what about Gay Pride-nobody is throwing this man a party simply because I prefer playing with vaginas!)
(Toronto claims the Pride Parade and Carribanna bring in more money than they cost-but this looks a lot like the same sort of accounting that permitted LIE-berals to hand out HUGE bonuses for Pan Am Games because the Game facilities were completed on time and on budget-and of course they were NOT!)
(City of Hamilton is discretely launching a lawsuit against construction companies and Ontari-owe LIE-beral govt because of the number of short cuts and shoddy work that were done at the new Hamilton arena to get it ROUGHLY completed on time. With other municipalities in southern Ontari-owe lining up to discreetly claim for their own Pan Am troubles-the Games have left a trail of shoddy work and sports facility deficiencies that govt does not want to talk about!)
Studies on this issue are not regularly done, so the numbers I have are not up to date.
But I am told by a reliable source at City Hall that the situation has not changed significantly since the study I quote from below was done.
It was by University of Calgary economics professor Ronald Kneebone, in a paper published by the C.D. Howe Institute, reported in 2007 by the Globe and Mail.
People seem to have forgotten it.
It said that, “based on averages between 1986 and 2002, Torontonians each paid $1,717 more in taxes every year than they received back in provincial and federal programs and services.”
That means Toronto residents are already paying more than their “fair share.”
(NO-this is NOT what it means! Toronto taxes must be properly defined! Toronto pays LOWER PROPERTY TAXES than other municipalities. They pay HIGHER INCOME TAXES because there are so many excellent civil service jobs in Toronto thanks very much- in part- to the presencve of Queens Park in Toronto-complete with a horde of highly paid hacks, flacks and flunkies-there is also the matter of the big banks all having headquarters in Toronto and those people are laos nicely paid thanks to relentless fee gouging! There is also the ten to one funding model set up by LIE-berals which allows for higher pay of all connected to govt! One way for over governed Toronto to save would be cutting the number of numbskull city councillors in half-and cutting he number of hacks and flacks by two thirds!)
(Bring Toronto civil service Hog pay back to levels paid in surrounding municipalities and watch the rate of tax paid by Toronto denizens drop and watch Toronto tax rates plummet! Cops, parks employees and bus drivers all do the same job across southern Ontari-owe- with NO reason for Toronto workers to be paid as if they had won a municipal lottery!)
In fact, Toronto is contributing more tax money than it takes back in services, so it is either uninformed or greedy to suggest Torontonians should pay even more.
(What a fine LIE-beral JOKE! LIE-berals INSIST that those who have more money should pay more tax-and then have a melt down when that philosophy is applied to THEM!)
The second widely held belief is if property taxes were raised in Toronto it would mean the province would have more money.
(ANOTHER LIE-beral joke-tax Toronto more and civil service Hogs will go on strike more often and black mail LIE-berals into giving MORE raises in pay! Govt DRIVES inflation!)
But that money would not go to the province, since property tax stays in the city.
(Toronto grandly hands out all manner of grants and gifts and vote buying treats-if they want the reward then they should be using THEIR own money and not money thrown to them by the LIE-beral provincial govt in a gross vote buying scheme! And that`s why we are talking about this now! LIE-berals and Toronto Hogs are terrified they have pushed us too far and that LIE-berals are about to be bombed out of office in the next election-with catastrophic results for Toronto finances as the new govt balances it books by giving Toronto a FAIR DEAL for a change! LIE-berals made this mess and now they are afraid they will drown in it!)
Whether Toronto should charge property taxpayers a higher tax rate for city services is a fair topic for discussion.
But even if it did, it would not benefit Oshawa or North Bay. It would just mean people in Toronto would pay more in property taxes.
(And higher Toronto property taxes would mean MORE money to fix roads and bridges in the city-it might even mean that Toronto Housing Authority SLUMS might get some fixing up?)
The only way the rest of the province would benefit would be if property taxes were raised in Toronto and the province simultaneously reduced its contributions to the city by the same amount.
(Yeah! And that is called FAIRNESS! AND ITS COMING to a dead broke city near you!)
But how would that be “fair” since Torontonians already pay more in provincial taxes than they get back in provincial services?
(OH dear-|LIE-beral policy just backfired on itself! LIE-berals insist that those with the most money should pay a FAIR- read LARGER SHARE than poor people-and its doubly fair when the "rich" are getting a larger share of govt transfer money than others!
The fact is that provincial services in the rest of the province are funded in part by the massive amount of money flowing to Queen’s Park from Toronto.
(IN case you have not noticed-Ontari-owe is stony broke LIE-berals and their Toronto municipal friends are merely re-arranging the deck chairs on their fiscal ship Titanic.)
Instead of pointing the bony finger of blame at someone else, we should all cooperate in demanding politicians stop misspending so much of the huge amounts of money all of us already give them.
(OH there is a JOKE! LIE-berals have repeatedly won elections based entirely on turning one group against another! Its why Toronto so loyally votes LIE-beral so often! Its Toronto Hogs against the rest of the province-with that nice Toronto deal maybe coming to an ugly end if McWynnnty cannot smooth the troubled political waters and remedy her current place as most unpopular premier in Cdn history!)
Ah yeah.. have to agree with the Conservatives..
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Cap and Trade money to balance a budget.. guess it's not about emissions, but tax revenue after all.