the Tax Attack

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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.

can't we give them one way tickets to albion

 

[LancsLad]

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

jwm

The "professional homeless" will leave once there is no financial incentive to stay. Stop all the wasteful giveaways and bring back vagrancy laws and Toronto just might become attractive to families to visit again.

On the few occasions when I go downtown i find the number of bums lounging around and beggars disgusting. And thats just at the legislature, the city streets are worse.

 

[LancsLad]

I think danmand likes to throw the LandRover comment out because I am an unapologetic Range Rover driver. he claims to be a Conservative but seems to have a tad too much guilt to really be of the fold.

 

[jwmorrice]

The "professional homeless" will leave once there is no financial incentive to stay. Stop all the wasteful giveaways and bring back vagrancy laws and Toronto just might become attractive to families to visit again.

I agree with this as far as it goes.

Myself, I would also like to see a return to the provision of asylums for the mentally ill. Prescribing anti-psychotics and then off-loading them into boarding homes and homeless shelters has been a recipe for disaster for those poor souls and for the rest of us as well. But that's for another thread.

jwm

 

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I agree with this as far as it goes.

Myself, I would also like to see a return to the provision of asylums for the mentally ill.

jwm

there won't be anyone on the internet then

 

[danmand]

I don't disagree with the tax on cars registered in the city, BUT your little rant there shows that your feelings of envy influence your position.

Like many...

Envy? How do you get that? Lanc says I have guilt!
You two characters should get together and decide
what personality disorder I have.

 

[danmand]

I think danmand likes to throw the LandRover comment out because I am an unapologetic Range Rover driver. he claims to be a Conservative but seems to have a tad too much guilt to really be of the fold.

I am an unapologetic conservative. The game of Who is more conservative, is a silly pastime.

 

[LancsLad]

I am an unapologetic conservative. The game of Who is more conservative, is a silly pastime.

Nothing is TOO silly for someone raised on Python, Beyond the Fringe and Benny Hill. You Sir, just don't have the sticktoitness to play.

 

[danmand]

Nothing is TOO silly for someone raised on Python, Beyond the Fringe and Benny Hill. You Sir, just don't have the sticktoitness to play.

I was raised on those too, plus "Around the Horn" and let us not forget Tom Lehrer and Gilbert & Sullivan.

 

[Never Compromised]

I was raised on those too, plus "Around the Horn" and let us not forget Tom Lehrer and Gilbert & Sullivan.

Or Wayne and Shuster

 

[LancsLad]

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

jwm

I hope they don't use people in that, do they????????



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