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Originally Posted by SebC
"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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I never stated an opinion that the current system was fair
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You realize that wherever you live will eventually be paying for stuff even further out if we don't change how we do business.
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is what you said - not that Calgary will or will not continue to expand.