What services do you and your loved one's use. Let's start there.How about cut some of the fat and reduce some services.
You know that responsible live within your means strategy
City of Toronto is broke
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Ah, so it's all because of Justin, not Doug, just Justin??? Yep, OKAY LOL Also, none of this falls on Chow who just inherited a mess from a conservative called John.
TTC is the least subsidized transit in North America. The province needs to pay more, DoFo should pay for the crackhead and Tory's 'improvements'.
Music venues and arts venues will close with more taxes, they are close already. Covid is back this fall and audiences still aren't.
Street name changes aren't a big expense but sure, put them on hold.
Thanks to John Tory, Toronto is $1.5 billion in the hole and they still provide free Viagra to city employees and have lots of unused trucks on the parking lot.
Tory was fucking his employee girl friend with the free Viagra. Ask him to pay back the city.
CP
Tory was fucking his employee girl friend with the free Viagra. Ask him to pay back the city.
CP
Too bad that this mess was created by a Conservative mayor. She only inherited what John Tory made worse.
If it was Trudeau that means that it would be a national problem. Are all the major cities in the same boat?
They should start with a hospitality tax like many jurisdictions gave. Placing even a 1% tax on hotel rooms would generate millions and it comes from tourists and corporate visitors.
Start ticketing drivers for traffic violations and Uber eats bikes for riding on the sidewalk.
It doesn't matter how many taxes the government introduces if spending continues to outpace it.
You guys are fucked. She will tax the city to the point that everyone with any sort of money/income leaves. Once the tax base has left Toronto will just turn into Detroit.
Complain that the city is falling apart, services declining, housing too expensive and too many homeless.
Then complain that you don't want to pay for fixing those issues.
Politics aside, I thought this thread was going to be about how many things are physically broken in the city. Cuz there's a lot of that too!
Okay politics back in, one thing that tons of other jurisdictions have done is radically cut the police budget. They get something like over a BILLION dollars a year. And I don't mean just cut the police and walk away. Let the cops do what they do best, and take away all the responsibilities they suck at, getting people who are cheaper and better at it. Mental health crisis? Sending expensive cops usually ends up with the person being beaten or killed by cops. Sending cheaper mental health crisis specialists usually ends better. And before anyone says this is some hippy woke bull, I'm talking about programs that tons of other jurisdictions have tried and succeeded with, saving lives (from being killed by cops) and saving money (from using cheaper, frankly better options) and seeing crime actually go down in response.
Toronto annual budget is something like $15 billion with the cops taking over $1 billion.
If you made $100,000 last year, that would be like spending almost $8000 on home security.
It's insane.
Toronto annual budget is something like $15 billion with the cops taking over $1 billion.
If you made $100,000 last year, that would be like spending almost $8000 on home security.
It's insane.
Toll the Gardiner and DVP for Christ sake. Make all those 905’s pay for driving in and out of the city.
Then, jack up parking and GO fees.
Get rid of bike lanes, or start issuing bicycle licenses you have to pay for and renew.
Easy answers. The suburbs have been riding Toronto’s coat tails for too long. Time to make it pay for play..
Doooooooo it Chow!!!
Of course are won’t. It makes too much common sense and she’s a career politician. And career politicians are all paper tigers.
Then, jack up parking and GO fees.
Get rid of bike lanes, or start issuing bicycle licenses you have to pay for and renew.
Easy answers. The suburbs have been riding Toronto’s coat tails for too long. Time to make it pay for play..
Doooooooo it Chow!!!
Of course are won’t. It makes too much common sense and she’s a career politician. And career politicians are all paper tigers.
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Dude, it's not a complaint, it's a statement of what's to come. It's very much like 3 years ago when some of us warned that shutting down businesses and printing money would lead to rampant inflation and economic cruft....and here we are.
Or, the 905ers will work and play in the suburbs and tell you to blow your taxes/fees out your ass.
