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Old 06-17-2010, 09:14 PM   #154
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Your "fairness" is subjective.

Your slippery slope also fails to impress me.
"Fairness" depends on your values. I value economic efficiency, in that subsidies and taxes should reflect externalities instead of personal preference. It's hard to figure out what you value that makes you think the current system is fair. Social justice? Won't argue with that, but there are rich people in the suburbs who benefit from subsidies from less wealthy people who live closer to the core.

And saying Calgary will continue to sprawl unless we remove the incentive for it to do so is hardly a slippery slope argument.

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