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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I like the part where you talk about the value of the capital projects. If the debate was phrased that way then it might have been better recieved in my opinion (Afterall was it not ~60% of respondents to the $52 million question imply support for some kind of spending?).
I don't like the way you in the last paragraph and Nenshi over the course of the campaign phrased the tax room grab. As voters in this election we were evaluating only the municipal level of politicians and the government they oversee. Therefore the fact that the province taxed us less in exactly the same proportion that the city taxed us more should be disregarded when evaluating only the local government's performance. The only thing that matters when voting for municipal politicians is to only look at the amount that they alone are responsible for.
If taken a step further hypothetically let's say the Federal government cut income taxes by 10%, but the province jacked up income taxes 10% at the same time. Would it be more reflective of the province's fiscal performance to say that they jacked up taxes by 10% or to net the two numbers and pretend that there wasn't a provincial tax increase at all because the net between the two is 0%?
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Fair ball, but I'd point out the the relationship between municipalities and provinces bears little resemblance between the provinces and the federal level of government (particularly funding and fiscal capacity of the entities).