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Originally Posted by browna
Or you're just pushing it back and delaying it and hope whatever you're slicing gets through another year.
Then you have EMS or the CPS or the garbage truck drivers or whoever's now out of the budget equation talking about going on strike.
I don't doubt that there's excess in a city budget..in any city budget. I just think this is partially fueled because people are more sensative now, now that they're houses aren't worth as much as they were two years ago, their portfolio's are in the crapper...they expect the city's budget to mirror that of their own...when as I said, the city has only one time a yer to collect and you lilkey have several city departments sticking out their hands for more (rightly or wrongly) cash, and the city has to play catchup for the first half of this year when the city/economy was still flying somewhat high.
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I don't think that's true at all. I just think they don't expect it to go up 25% in 3 years, that's all.
There are a few sources of why the budget is to skyrocket, one is that I haven't seen alot of city transacting but what I have seen I'm quite shocked on how much they pay for things from 3rd parties. And second I think in part Calgarians are to blame. Everyone wants a big house on a big lot is some burb 25km from where they work. All things that are infrastructure go up quickly when that happens.
I've said it on here a few times. I know a few builders who over the last 10 years have said city taxes in Calgary are going to skyrocket because everyone feels entitled to a huge chunk of land and that is growing this city ways that are rediculous. It's too sparse.