EnviroTO
Senior Member
Ok so what do you cut to raise $500 million?
Well he said cut to a level we can afford. If we can afford those services then raise property taxes to pay for them because we can afford it. The simple math is that the bills need to be paid.
The options are one or more of:
a) cuts
b) user fees
c) new taxes
and/or d) property tax increases.
The city can't tell the province or the federal government what to do. All it can do is yell loudly about its bad situation and how the upper levels of government could help and move forward with balancing budgets. It is poor leadership to eat up reserves, create sneaky property tax increases that load costs on to future residents like our children and future immigrants so current citizens enjoying services they aren't willing to pay for can reduce their tax hit, and delay making decisions.