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Originally Posted by 4X4
Are we talking about the subsidy again, because I'm pretty sure we all agree on that. Or are you talking about how in another 50 years, we're going to need much bigger roads, and that the people living along those roads should pay for them, rather than the people that live elsewhere in the city?
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I'm talking not only about the subsidy, but the cost of inner-city re-development, the expansion of the LRT system, the ring road - everything. Is it possible to quantify how much, exactly, it costs to add a new subdivision, or a condo block infill, or a shopping mall? I don't know, but I'd rather the administration at least tried and then came up with a way to fairly offload those expected costs than just kept on the way we're going, which essentially is "raise taxes whenever we need money using a craptastic regressive tax, and/or ask the province for money like a kid looking for a bigger allowance."