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Originally Posted by First Lady
You know I have been giving that more thought. One of the main purposes of the bridge is to promote walking and cylcling to work.
Why stop there. Couldn't we encourage people to swim across the Bow to work?
It has excellent health benefits. For a fraction of the $25 M the city could cover swim leasons for those interested. And they would get the added bonus of the health rebates offered by the province.
It would be a win-win-win scenerio.
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[This is a great idea! Then the far right (like the Wildrose Alliance, or whatever they are called today
) could really have their way! They could reduce taxes
and enforce survival of the fittest at the same time! Plus wouldn't industry be doing us all a favour when they decreased the flow of the river?
]
In answer to the real question though I don't have a huge problem with the tax increases. I think that there is a certain standard of living that I want in the city and it costs money to get it there. To me the larger disgrace is that we are stupid enough to pay the province enough money to run huge surpluses, and have our municipalities running deficits in the same cycle.