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Originally Posted by Locke
People who earn their living in Calgary, use Calgary infrastructure, transit, roads etc, but pay their taxes to some other jurisdiction?
Yup. I'd call that a taxation problem.
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It is. But it's not anywhere close to the scale of Detroit and other American cities that are broken up into a dozen counties. If the municipality of Calgary encompassed the borders of the city circa 1970, and everything built since then was in other jurisdictions, then yeah, we would be hooped. But people from the bedroom communities around Calgary make up only a small fraction of the users of Calgary infrastructure and facilities. It's something to keep an eye on, but not a serious problem at this point.