bobbob911
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Councillor Gary Crawford has just reversed his decision on deferring the transit funding recommendations. And the wall crumbles a little more ....
Councillor Gary Crawford has just reversed his decision on deferring the transit funding recommendations. And the wall crumbles a little more ....
I have to believe that the conservative business community is angered and wants to get rid of this clown. The Globe and Mail is fed up, and now the National Post is too - the conservative pro-business papers. Big business in this city is pushing very hard to get the new revenue tools/taxes in place. Yes, they don't really want to pay too much to get it, so progressive income taxation and direct corporate taxes are not amongst their recommendations (sales taxes and fuel taxes are fine IMO, but they do have a disproportionate effect). You could get Mel Lastman, for example, behind it given he was part of that PC old boys club along with Godfrey and Tory.
Never before have I seen so many businesses actively advocate for new taxes. Fingers crossed that the business community will use their influence to get this clown (Ford) out of office.
Kristyn Wong-Tam offers to explain how politics works to Mayor Ford: http://www.thestar.com/news/city_ha...ain_how_politics_works_to_mayor_rob_ford.html
Never before have I seen so many businesses actively advocate for new taxes.
People need to wake up to what is really happening.
What do you think is the reason why Bay street is pushing for these transit funding "tools"? What Bay street wants is a sell-off of highways similar to what happened with the sell-off , for pennies-on-the-dollar, of highway 407.
This is just another way for the Liberals to plunder $Billions from the Ontario treasury. They have gone as far as they can go with their green energy scams that are costing us $BILLIONS so the Liberals have to find another way to loot the province.
As with the green energy scam it is all being done under the guise of a good cause. With greed energy the noble cause was clean air for future generations. With the push to put tolls on our highway's the noble cause is funding public transportation expansion.
I can't get over how gullible people are. Do you really think that we can trust this Liberal government with $Billions in new revenue? This is one of the most corrupt governments in the history of Canada!
So you're opposed to revenue raising. How do you want to fund transit expansion? Maybe you don't.
Wasn't it the Harris government that sold the 407? Have the Liberals indicated that they want to privatize the roads? Isn't privatization a conservative cure-all?
Let's assume the Liberals want to privatize the roads and the business community believes that's a possibility - you really think they think they can skim a profit from that somehow? How many businesses could possibly get their hands into that transaction? It's not more likely that they'd be in support of it because congestion causes billions in lost productivity and hurts the competitiveness of the region?
Got to love how a thread about Rob Ford became a thread about the Liberals, yet again.
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Councillor Gary Crawford has just reversed his decision on deferring the transit funding recommendations. And the wall crumbles a little more ....
How many subway lines could have been built over the last 10 years with the billions of dollars this province wasted on an eHealth system that never worked, helicopters they never needed and gas plants they never built?