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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Sure, but in the context of a municipal election, the city's take sure increased by more than 16.7% and that is the lens that the voter should look at as far as to the question of if he/she is getting the value they expect from municipal services for the taxes that are collected for the municipality.
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Sure, but also don't pretend (as many did) that this increased "share" didn't get us anything other than normal ongoing service delivery - just regular operating budget stuff like cutting grass in parks and clearing snow.
It confounded me that the Herald endorsement editorial lauded the Mayor on his very tangible accomplishments of getting important projects like the long awaited $245 million central library, $450 million for 4 major rec centres and three library branches built (all the other stuff listed above) while in the next sentence condemning the only method by which any of these projects could have been built. It was odd - we love this stuff, but we don't like that you paid for them out of dirty, dirty Calgary tax dollars - I guess they thought the money fell from the sky.