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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
Hey, I'm not the one who said if they can't afford the taxes and services they should move back to toronto.
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I know in the last city taxes thread we compared Calgary to Winnipeg, and how we are paying a lot less here than Winnipeg. I'd be curious to see how our taxes compare to Toronto; looking at the same size and style of house; ie what does a person who owns a 30 year old bungalow pay.
The bottom line is we had it great through the 90s for taxes because Duer refused to spend more than he had to. We now have an infastructure defecit that Bronco is taking care of. Yes, he has a background in construction and I don't doubt that some of his previous business partners make money from city contracts. But the city needed to spend.
Duer originally had the Glenmore-Elbow interchange scheduled to be done around 2018-2020. But it got done sooner; for probably less than what it would have cost 10 years from now. 100's of thousands of cars use that interchange every week; would we have been better of just leaving it?