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Since 2003, when Lowe served as chairman of the city’s finance committee or on its priorities and finance panel, the city’s portion of the tax burden has gone from a median of $835 per household to $1,557.
In this, his final term on council, that number’s risen by $243.
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The veteran Ward 2 alderman is asked where the city’s cash harvest fuelled by consistent tax hikes has gone.
“It’s gone into providing the same or in some cases a lesser level of service in an ever-expanding city, and that growth is very much the bottom line of it,” he said.
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http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/08/03...-ald-gord-lowe
And that, my friends, is why we should be asking that growth in this city start paying for itself.