Frankly, I see the amount if infrastructure that is needed, and how fast it gets built with current funding, and if a sales tax would help get some of it built faster, then I'm all for it.
As an example, look at Calgary Transit's 30 year plan that costs $13 billion. It looks great until you realize that in 30 years when that plan is all built (hopefully), Calgary will be a city of 2.5 million instead of 1.2 million. If that plan is all that is built in the next 30 years, we'll be further behind than we are now.
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