Well said CaptainYooh. One item to add to this:
Ward Sutherland (Councillor for Ward 1) was on the radio yesterday and said that wage increases for unionized workers etc. (ie previosuly agreed to contracts) effectively put the tax increase at something like 3.5% right off the bat. To get the increase below 3.5% means cutting something from somewhere else. So yeah, I agree that fearmongering about cutting police etc. is irresponsible but they do have a point in that something does need to be cut from somewhere else if people want taxes lowered, or even the tax increase lowered. And our course most people do not want their current levels of service for anything to be cut, so where does that put the City?
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