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lead82 said:
We need regional taxes for road/highway usage, gas taxes, parking taxes and improved transit for the entire region. We don't have a shortage of money, we have a shortage of political will to work together as a region for the benefit of everyone who lives here.
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http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page4865.aspx Where is this Tax money going?

Every New house built pays a lot levy or development charge, Toronto's Lot Levy is frozen Why?

Doug Holyday has his views on additional subway expansion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFd753ER9gg
we do need integrated systems of transit from the 905. Is transit City do able? Not when people avoid the fare box and ride free.
 
I wish some people would realize that not everyone shares their highfalutin ideals and stop forcing their lifestyle on those with opposing beliefs. The city is not just for those who take transit, ride their bikes everywhere, believe that most problems can be solved by throwing hemp into the equation, think that just because central planning and pro-soviet ideas failed everywhere else they'll somehow work here; Toronto is for real people with actual jobs and actual problems, too.

PS, I'm not sure when CFNY morphed into the joke it is now, but if they could go back to the way it was in the 1980's, Toronto would be a much better place to live.
 
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how about we try to finish projects on time and on budget instead of making continuous excuses?

I walked by the Duncan/Peter shelter and had a chuckle to myself. What has it been, 3 years? 12 million dollars? , another 3 million in operating costs? Yet, there hasn't been one single person serviced by this center. In the meantime, the RBCDexia centre is complete. The Trump and Ritz Carlton look like to be complete this year?
This is just a runing joke now... I'm curious to see when it will be done.

In the mean time...
Bureaucrat: " We're investing in the needy, 12 million dollars in a state of the art facility with 3 million dollars dedicated annually"
Critic: " We're spending an average of 65 k annually per homless individual"
Homeless: " I'm cold, hungry, and have no where to go... spare some change?"

what a joke!
 
The_Waffler said:
PS, I'm not sure when CFNY morphed into the joke it is now, but if they could go back to the way it was in the 1980's, Toronto would be a much better place to live.
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You miss Chris Sheppard, don't you? Aw, muffin. He's still alive, you know!
 
lead82 said:
Stop thinking like a city and start thinking together as a region with our 905 neighbours. We can't have parking taxes and other fees while the 905 areas are able to sprawl away. We need regional taxes for road/highway usage, gas taxes, parking taxes and improved transit for the entire region.

Implementing Toronto only taxes like the $60/yr fee for owning a car in the city is just plain dumb. People will register in 905 to avoid it, and it is unfair to people in Toronto who may only have 1 car per family to pay $60, while 905ers with 2-3 cars pay nothing, yet still use the same roads.

The GTA is the wealthiest region in Canada, but that money is not spent in a co-ordinated way. What we truly need is a consumption tax on the region. I think 1% would do it. A regional gas tax could be used to pay for transit projects. All current transit projects should be built, and paid for over time using a gas tax and road tolls once the transit options are up and running.

We don't have a shortage of money, we have a shortage of political will to work together as a region for the benefit of everyone who lives here.
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I'll go one better & advocate that the GTA (Halton, Peel, Toronto, York, Durham) band together and separate from Ontario and be given Provincial status.

A GTA with Provincial Status would be able to collect income taxes, Liquor Taxes, Gas Taxes, Sales Taxes, get rid of property taxes (or keep them), set-up lotteries & casinos. Instead of going begging to Queen's Park for funds, funds which more leave the GTA than are ever returned in the way services or funding. We'd be able to eliminate 1 level of Government & bureaucracy and receive the benefit of the savings that entails.

Let's stop screwing around begging Queen's Park & Parliament Hill for handouts (handouts which are rightfully the GTA's) and start a Toronto Party much like the Bloc Quebecois. A party that is interested in the interests of Greater Torontonians. sending boatloads of Liberal MPP's & MP's to both Queens Park & Ottawa well on 40 years have done nothing of any great value for this region.
 
Cranky Old Fart said:
I'll go one better & advocate that the GTA (Halton, Peel, Toronto, York, Durham) band together and separate from Ontario and be given Provincial status.

A GTA with Provincial Status would be able to collect income taxes, Liquor Taxes, Gas Taxes, Sales Taxes, get rid of property taxes (or keep them), set-up lotteries & casinos. Instead of going begging to Queen's Park for funds, funds which more leave the GTA than are ever returned in the way services or funding. We'd be able to eliminate 1 level of Government & bureaucracy and receive the benefit of the savings that entails.

Let's stop screwing around begging Queen's Park & Parliament Hill for handouts (handouts which are rightfully the GTA's) and start a Toronto Party much like the Bloc Quebecois. A party that is interested in the interests of Greater Torontonians. sending boatloads of Liberal MPP's & MP's to both Queens Park & Ottawa well on 40 years have done nothing of any great value for this region.
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You do realise that this would also mean that the people who currently mismanaging our city would have added responsibilities like health, education, etc.?
 
That's not how things work. We have jokers running the City because there is no party system, and no one pays attention to municipal politics. Incumbents have an enormous advantage, and are very hard to remove.
 
Glen said:
You do realise that this would also mean that the people who currently mismanaging our city would have added responsibilities like health, education, etc.?
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I would like to think that a GTA with Provincial status or at least powers might be able to attract a better, more capable class of Candidate & Leadership. Instead of people that dabbled as Immigration & Labour Lawyers and attempted to manage a City Councillors Office Budget for a few years .
 
Hipster Duck said:
I wonder what he's doing nowadays. I imagine him living in a house in Vaughan and being really fat.
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Aw, no! Poor bastard if he is!

Last I heard of him....hmmm....wasn't terribly long ago. Maybe three or four years ago. He was spinnin' at some party in Toronto I believe. Don't know if he was fat or living in Vaughan though.
He should have kept as The Dogwhistle. Rave to the grave(no OD jokes, please); slim chance of getting fat. Even slimmer chance of moving to Vaughan.
 
I'd like to see Toronto:

- Clean up the east and west end of the city
- Stop those social housing project that basically turns an area into slums.
- Lower property tax
- Have a TTC that is actually clean and something Torontonian can be proud of
- Expand the TTC line, at least connect Shepperd line to the East.

Anyway these are just pipe dreams for now, I'd just settle for a decent mayor (or at least not Adam...) :rolleyes:
 
"- Lower property tax"

That'd be fantastic, but what would you cut to make it happen?
 
Sepiraph said:
I'd like to see Toronto:

- Clean up the east and west end of the city
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What the bloody hell does this mean? No, seriously....what do you mean by this? The east end, east of West Hill, south of the highway is beautiful! There's nothing to clean up there. It's western counterpart ain't too shabby either.


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Chris Sheppard will always be cool in my books. Well, there's a scale of coolness...but I do appreciate some of what he's done. I think The_Waffler is interested in seeing him return and take over CFNY and change it back to its old format.
 
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