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Originally Posted by Bunk
What Calgary is asking for is not more taxes, but simply a rebalancing of the taxes we already pay as Calgarians. Only 8 cents of each of your tax dollar goes to the municipality. Municipalities are responsible for a pretty wide array of services, but don't have the fiscal capacity to actually deliver those services. For instance, we couldn't even dream of building an LRT line on our own, we must rely on the political whims of other levels of government, yet municipalities are responsible for delivering transit service? How can we possibly plan for this kind of infrastructure when we never know when or how much money will be given.
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That is a mind-bottling figure!