the Tax Attack

[Never Compromised]

I've received the following e-mail, and thought I would pass it along.


Good Afternoon:

The countdown to Black-Tax-Friday’s, 3 Hour Tax Protest on Friday, July 13, 2007 has begun.

Today, the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation released a poll showing that more than 74% of Torontonians oppose the new taxes. Accordingly, we are on the right track.

To help you help us send one clear message to the Mayor and City Hall this Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 12 noon, attached are a phone script and e-mail script. Our message is simple: “Toronto does not have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem.”

Also, please listen to the John Oakley Morning Show (680 AM) on Friday the 13th between 9:00 and 9:30 a.m. to hear Kevin Gaudet of the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation.

(signed)
The Toronto Party

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BLACK-TAX-FRIDAY

PHONE SCRIPT

Please use this phone script on July 13, 2007 during the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon in support of our Black-Tax-Friday, tax protest.

Step 1: Call Access Toronto

Call Access Toronto at 416-338-0338 between 9:00 a.m. and 12 noon.

“Hello, my name is [INSERT YOUR NAME].”

“I am calling to voice my opposition to Mayor Miller’s new taxes. I would like the Mayor’s office please.”
Step 2: Transfer to the Mayor’s Office

Once you have been connected to the Mayor’s office, please say as follows:

“Hello, my name is [INSERT YOUR NAME]. I am calling to voice my opposition to the Mayor’s decision to impose a new land transfer tax and a new vehicle registration tax. Toronto does not have a revenue problem. It has a spending. So I am strongly urging the Mayor [or INSERT “you”, if you are speaking directly to the Mayor] to not implement his proposed new taxes. The city should get its own house in order instead of reaching into my pocket for another tax grab. Thank you for
taking the time to listen to me. Goodbye.”

DO NOT GET INVOLVED IN ANY OTHER CONVERSATION WITH THE MAYOR’S OFFICE ABOUT THE TAX ISSUE OR ANY OTHER ISSUE. IF THEY TRY TO KEEP YOU ON THE PHONE, TELL THEM THAT YOU ARE BUSY AND HAVE TO GO.

 

[zekestone]

But Toronto, Peel, et al, can say, 'we don't have a spending problem, the province has a downloading problem'.

 

[C Dick]

Downloading is a politician excuse, they have a spending problem. It can't really be 680am can it? 680 is always news?

 

[Never Compromised]

If it was a downloading problem, it would have shown up in 98.

 

[Never Compromised]

Begin Forwarded Message:


-----Original Message-----
From: "Hon. Jim Karygiannis P.C. M.P." <jim@karygiannismp.com>

Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:09:00
To:"Norm Kelly" <nkelly@toronto.ca>,"Hon. Jim Karygiannis" <jim@karygiannismp.com>
Subject: Proposed Increase on Taxes


Norm

I have received your email regarding mill rates and I find your argument baseless.
Increasing our landtransfer tax, increasing taxes on garbage collection, fees on car registration will add considerable suffering to our constituents and especially to an immigrant population with limited income that you and I represent.

Speaking on behalf of our mutual constituents and having received several emails and many phone calls as a tax payer of your ward I am writing to urge you to vote against these measusers.

Althought you are a member of the executive committee which supported this measures I STRONGLY urge you to show courage and vote against these measures.
I would appreciate an answer at your earliest convinience especially before the vote.

Warm regards


Hon. Jim Karygiannis P.C. , M.P.
Scarborough-Agincourt
Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network

Hon. Jim Karygiannis M.P.
Scarborough-Agincourt
Constituency Office
3850 Finch Ave East Suite 206
Scarborough Ontario
M1T 3T6
Tel: (416) 321 5454
fax: (416) 321 5456
jim@karygiannismp.com
www.karygiannismp.com

 

[K Douglas]

Downloading is a politician excuse, they have a spending problem. It can't really be 680am can it? 680 is always news?

No Oakley is on 640am. He like most 640 hosts are very anti-Millerites.

 

[LancsLad]

My hunch is that this was a trial balloon, test. Miller knew he would loose and they have already started the suck up routine going to extort provincial money promises during the election this fall.


Fact of the matter is that miller and all those other asshats of the left don't have a revenue problem, they have a spending problem. If by some magic happenstance the province and feds gave them an extra $1 Billion, they would blow thru it and ask for more. They are spending addicts who are out of control.

 

[tboy]

I"m all with you lanc. It isn't that they need MORE money, they just have to manage what they have, better. But hey, that might actually take some thought now wouldn't it? And by cutting spending on non-essential services they might piss off a few vocal groups but instead, fuck us all up the ass.

I wrote a bulk email to ALL city councillors and said: oh, you'll have to cut services to me? WHAT services? You don't shovel the snow outside my building, my maintenance people do that. YOu DON'T collect my garbage, we pay a private contractor for that. You DON"T maintain the sidewalk, we've done that 3 times in the past 8 yrs, so what, you DON'T provide me with electricity, OPG does that. So, you're going to cut my water supply?

If they want to cut spending it is pretty fucking easy:
1) Cut out the snow removal and dumping bullshit. Just pile it on people's lawns like they do in every other rural community in Canada. Hell, in Quebec City they pile it so high it reaches the eaves.
2) Make each home owner responsible to shovel the sidewalk in front of their home or business.
3) Make composting mandatory
4) Make at least 3 dump sites in the city (like Mississauga has) where we can go and take our recyclables/building waste etc.
5) REWARD people who live and work within the city limits, DON'T penalize them. Penalize the ones that travel 100 kms for their daily commute.
6) DOn't waste money on BS items like that suicide prevention wall on the bloor viaduct. I mean, ok, so one or two people jumped and we go spend (what was it?) 2 million dollars? What a waste. If someone wants to jump they just go north or south to the next one....fuck, whoever approved that ought to be in jail.
7) Don't waste money on trying to get the goddamn olympics here. Hell, even if we got them all it would do would be create chaos for x months. Atlanta is STILL trying to pay off the massive debt it incurred when they held them....

 

[Esco!]

asshats of the left don't have a revenue problem, they have a spending problem.

Thats why I rarely vote Liberal.

Even if Miller's tax grab had gone through he'd eventually spend his way into deficit again, then in a few years they'd have to raise taxes again, and so on......and so on.

 

[shakenbake]

My hunch is that this was a trial balloon, test. Miller knew he would loose and they have already started the suck up routine going to extort provincial money promises during the election this fall.

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Actually, to some it looked like political suicide on Miller's part.

 

[Never Compromised]

miller lost the vote

Well, not really. What they have done is simply defer the vote until after October 10. It appears that Miller still has the numbers on council, but I'm guessing that his NDP and Liberal supporters did not want to make an election issue of his spending.

 

[Esco!]

6) DOn't waste money on BS items like that suicide prevention wall on the bloor viaduct. I mean, ok, so one or two people jumped and we go spend (what was it?) 2 million dollars? What a waste.

And FFS quit spending millions on the Arts.
Under Miller the city has increased its contributions to the Toronto Arts Council from $8.5 million in 2004 to $9.2 million in 2006.

Thats nuts!!

 

[papasmerf]

Tax problem?

Would a tax lawyer help you get over the problem?

Yes for a limited time you can go to www.taxessuck.com and find a tax lawyer in your area. Now once you find this scoundrel you need to get into your car and run the lawyer over.......Yes protest taxes by running over the people who are supported by your situation

oh and if the lawyer you are trying to run over is fighting a wind mill..........tell him papa says hi

 

[drstrangelove]

Thats why I rarely vote Liberal.

Even if Miller's tax grab had gone through he'd eventually spend his way into deficit again, then in a few years they'd have to raise taxes again, and so on......and so on.

Miller isn't Liberal, he's NDP. That partly explains why little is done to reduce the employee costs of the city, too many jobs would be lost, and that's anti-NDP!

 

[enduser1]

IMHO the Megacity is a mistake. All that the Mega city did was to allow Miller et al to grab massive taxes from Etobicoke and Scarborough and spend them downtown. The smartest thing to do would be to break the city up again into three pieces. Toronto and North York as one. Etobicoke as another and Scarborough as a third, with the boroughs absorbed into Etobicoke and Scarborough.

 

[red]

can we organize a terb takeover of the city- lets get members to run in the next election and fix the fuckin city

 

[Shallow Throat]

can we organize a terb takeover of the city- lets get members to run in the next election and fix the fuckin city

Here are quick ways to generate finance for the city:
1) Another Lottery
2) How about a city-run brothel, the deficit would be gone in no time.

 

[LancsLad]

Gee if we stopped wasting over $200 million each year on the growing "HOMELESS INDUSTRY" in Toronto that would go a long way to reducing the deficit.

Contract out and get rid of all the farking city union jobs for life contracts that they have.

Just those two areas would save a fortune, but we know they'll never do it. Farkin socialists.

 

[danmand]

Gee if we stopped wasting over $200 million each year on the growing "HOMELESS INDUSTRY" in Toronto that would go a long way to reducing the deficit.

If you want Toronto to be a world class city, you cannot have people sleeping on the street.
Toronto need to do much more to help the homeless.

A tax on cars would work well. I see no shortage of new luxury cars in Toronto.
Their owners surely can afford to pay a little to the city. People who drive landrovers especially.

 

[jwmorrice]

Gee if we stopped wasting over $200 million each year on the growing "HOMELESS INDUSTRY" in Toronto that would go a long way to reducing the deficit.

Contract out and get rid of all the farking city union jobs for life contracts that they have.

Just those two areas would save a fortune, but we know they'll never do it. Farkin socialists.

You forgot the solyent green option. Going soft in your dotage?

jwm