Miller Goes on the Offensive
David Miller today launched a marketing campaign aimed at gaining support for his controversial new tax proposals. The central piece of the campaign is fairtaxes.ca, a website defending the new taxes as the only way to "build a great city". He's even got a blog-sort of (if you count posting a press release as original content.)
For those of you who have been sleeping under a rock in the 905 for the past few months, the taxes in question are a new land transfer tax and a new vehicle licensing tax that could bring the city an additional $356 million a year. God bless the City of Toronto Act!
Council voted to defer a decision on the taxes until after the upcoming Provincial election-presumably hoping the winning party would somehow bail them out of their financial quagmire. However, in a shrewd move, Miller is now saying that if Council agrees on voting on the issue early, he will keep community centres open.
Rumor has it Miller will be appearing on CP24 tonight at 9pm and will be taking phone calls on the issue. Judging by my last post on the issue, he can probably expect to get several callers on both sides of the debate.
Comments (5)
UNFAIR
Placing the tax burden for services that all Torontonians enjoy onto the shoulders of the tiny segment of the population that chose to buy a home in this great city.
FAIR
?ask property tax payers to cover the full cost of these services?
Is it really necessary to lie to Torontonians about how ?fair? this tax plan is?
This tax plan might be necessary and it might be the only solution, but it definitely isn?t fair.
Good to see swimming pools are closing while the Mayor scrounges up the cash to run his little PR empire selling a partisan political message.
Unfair: Taxing seniors out of their homes and businesses out of the city.
Fair: Taxing people at the time they are exchanging property and realizing real income and forcing grossly overpaid real estate agents to cut their bloated commissions when they do shit-all work and sell homes in hours.
"...and forcing grossly overpaid real estate agents to cut their bloated commissions"
LOL! Like thats going to happen! As always, any financial burden will passed down to the consumer. There are efficiencies to be found, Miller et al just don't want them to come from anything related to them...how's that 8+% raise going the Miller? Ah well, at least he had the sense to cancel his propaganda, errr media room/project at city hall...for now.
Exactly. but even if you canned all city councillors and the mayor, you wouldn't have $300 million. I defy you, A. Political, or anyone reading this to find $300 million in savings that doesn't result in massive service cuts...I'll be waiting.
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