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Originally Posted by Beatle17
Our city taxes have increased by 60% overall in the last 10 years with absolutely no increase or improvement in services. Maybe take some of that money and use it for investing in business for the city.
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Calgary has been booming for 15 years. Each new house built in this city requires infrastructure (roads, water systems, fire halls, etc.) with an upfront capital cost that takes 20+ years to pay out in property taxes. If you don't like it, join the people (like the mayor) calling for developers (and ultimately new home owners) to pay more of those infrastructure costs.
And going all the way back to the Duerr years, city hall was letting the infrastructure backlog get bigger and bigger. Bronconnier was mainly playing catch-up.
And if you're looking for someone else to blame, look to the provincial government which drastically but funding for cities back in the 90s (which is why Duerr couldn't build anything), and still milks Calgary and Edmonton taxpayers to buy votes in rural Alberta.