Toronto Mayoral Candidates
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Yeah. I could see that.
I could also see her office get stoned and torched if it happened.
Mark Saunders is tweeting it'll be 25% at least.
He sounds trustworthy
Mark Saunders, is that the guy that assured us that there was no serial killer hunting queer men in the village? That Mark Saunders? Definitely trustworthy /s
I'm sorry, but the actual annual property tax plus the Building Fund Levy increased by an average of 2.23%/year over the total of Tory's 9 budgets.
Now, when removing the Building Fund Levy of 1.5%, because it is not a property tax supported levy that is directed to the city's operational budget for city services, but directed solely to it's capital budget, then the actual average property tax increases to support operational city services drops to 1.5%.
So yes, hell yes Tory certainly did underfund the City of Toronto's operational budget which is directed towards city services over his miserly 2 and 1/8th terms.
Especially appalling as the city's population grew substantially over that time and Tory's operational budgets did not meet the needs of an ever-expanding city, did not account for inflationary growth and did not meet the basics for the quality of life of it's citizens, all of which continued the decay and decomposition of the city started by Mel Lastman, hyper-driven by Rob Ford, for nine effin years and driven to the fiscal and financial abyss by Tory.
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It must be hard going through life being this stupid.Maybe from your perspective since you are extreme left. But in reality his policies have been centre to centre left. Largely because he has to placate the lefties on council. Here's the council makeup of Tory's first term in office
Toronto City Council 2014–2018 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Tory didn't placate to the left leaning councillors on council. He basically stacked all the important positions on council, like committees, with right leaning ass kissers so that left leaning councillors barely had a voice at all.
There's nothing "left" about cutting services year over year by under funding them through keeping property taxes at or below inflation.
The only centrist thing about Tory is that he would try and come across as being socially progressive. Talk is cheap however. You can talk about how great equity and inclusion is but if you go on to starve the programs that help marginalized communities live better lives, all that talk means nothing.
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Out of the 44 councilors and 1 mayor on Kirk's Wiki link list, I count:
1) 20 hardcore right-wing councilors, all from the inner suburbs and 1 right-wing mayor all of whom always voted as a block except on Tory's stupid "jets at Toronto Island airport" and his right-wing "privatizing all of Toronto's solid waste services". And the only reason why these right-wing assholes lost those 2 votes was because their constituents rose up, gave them a mass earful of shit and promised it would be their last terms as councilors.
2) 10 left leaning councilors.
3) 14 centrist councilors whose votes swung depending on the issues and council vote
I remember the council votes. All the right-wing needed was 2 centrists to join them, while the left needed to convince 13 centrists.
That's how we got these repeated and continuous below inflation property tax increases; a $3billion dollar Scarborugh white elephant subway; a going on to $2billion eastern end of the Gardiner move a few meters north; a scrapping of a fully provincially funded Toronto wide mass transit plan; a decaying a decomposing city ........
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So, just who is going to pay for:
a) the $223million budget shortfall for the fiscal year 2022?
b) the $1.2billion budget shortfall in this fiscal year of 2023?
c) for the $46.5billion budgetary shortfall over the next 10 years?
Still believing in the fallacy and failure of right-wing city council and mayoralty rule that we have had for the last consecutive 13 years that caused this mess?
Gotta love these alternate-universe, willfully misinformed, fallacy and ideologically based voters.
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A major problem is that the City is cursed with closed shop bidding. This means the labour buddies of our lefty friends make off like bandits with no competition for contracts.
That's what's given us homeless living in parks, TTC falling apart, roads in poor repair and services declining.
Everything right wingers complain about.
JFC, tell me you failed Econ 101 without telling me you failed Econ 101...
If there's less money in the money supply, inflation goes down. Taxes are actually an effective, albeit blunt, way to temper inflation. There's an argument to be made that in our high inflationary environment, we should be using tax increases, rather than interest rates to bring it down.
This is the exact definition of penny wise and pound foolish. We either spend now or kick the can down the road and spend more later, which is exactly what has been going on for the last 12+ years of Conservative rule in Toronto.
What we need to do is stand up to the thug and make the province pay for all Metrolinx adventures, their fair share of transit and health care.
Poor John, he looks 10 years older in less than a year. The ordeal has taken its toll.
"The 1st two were funded by the federal government were they not?"
What in God's name are you talking about? What did they fund, gaping holes in the 2022 and 2023 operating budgets totaling almost $1.5billion? You are lost and clueless and have no idea what you are even talking about.
Over 13 consecutive budgets, Rob Ford and John Tory did their right-wing best to do exactly what you are proposing in your above quoted sentences, 2 and 3, and guess what happened? They have left the city of Toronto with a massive $46.5billion budgetary gap over the next 10 years.
There is a massive amount of wealth held by the residents, corporations and businesses of Toronto. Wealth, I might add that was accrued by them because they were the beneficiaries of the wealth created by being based in Toronto.
Surely, there must have been benefits that also accrued to the good citizens of Toronto (e.g. jobs, sale of goods and services, etc.)
1a) Doug Ford then: "I will not be endorsing any candidate!"
1b) Doug Ford now: "I am endorsing Mark Saunders. Vote Saunders! Heed my words, or else, I will smite Toronto like a biblical plague!"
2a) John Tory then: "I am focusing on heeling my relationships with my family. I will not be endorsing any candidates for mayor."
2b) John Tory now: "i am endorsing Ann Bailao for mayor. She is me in a pantsuit, a transgendered me. She will continue my policies that have brought the city to edge of the abyss."
These two, along with the Thug's bro are the ones who are most responsible for calamity that is now Toronto. And they are telling you to "bend over and take it up the ass for another 4 years."
The lack of character these two display is astounding.
1b) Doug Ford now: "I am endorsing Mark Saunders. Vote Saunders! Heed my words, or else, I will smite Toronto like a biblical plague!"
2a) John Tory then: "I am focusing on heeling my relationships with my family. I will not be endorsing any candidates for mayor."
2b) John Tory now: "i am endorsing Ann Bailao for mayor. She is me in a pantsuit, a transgendered me. She will continue my policies that have brought the city to edge of the abyss."
These two, along with the Thug's bro are the ones who are most responsible for calamity that is now Toronto. And they are telling you to "bend over and take it up the ass for another 4 years."
The lack of character these two display is astounding.
In some of my numbers I did include the building fund levy so I have revised
2015 - 2.25%
2016 - 1.30%
2017- 2.00%
2018- 2.10%
2019 - 2.55%
2020 - 2.74%
2021 - 0.70%
2022 - 2.90%
2023 - 5.50%
AVG - 2.45%
On top of these numbers were the building fund levy that ranged between 0.5% to 1.5%. If you add the increases up for most years that exceeded the rate of inflation.
