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Mr.Coffee · 10-24-2018, 06:51 PM

I pray this does not work. I do not want to spend hundreds (thousands?) of property tax increases so that we can have some kind of weird sense of "pride" (nebulous at best) or increased "prestige".

What the hell does it matter to any of you what some guy in France or China thinks of Calgary? Nobody can explain this to me. So it makes you feel pride to come from a place, but why does that matter and why does that mean I should face tax increases as a homeowner for some nebulous BS 'feeling'? Yeah please can I pay more tax money so that Gerry and Sandra feel proud to be from Calgary? It makes no sense. People from other countries don't care about Calgary and people from Calgary don't care about other countries. Do you people sit around and think about cities with world prestige? No, and who cares?

The very critical fact that the province has restricted spending to the capital budget number and excess is not funded, should be a HUGE concern and put a bullet in this thing. We know this puppy is going to take us to at least double, so $10B.

As Senator Clay says, this city is in for a rude awakening in the next couple years as the reality of a (not just soft, but closer to life support situation) poor oilpatch settles in. We can't monitor economic declines to Calgary in 1 year increments. It's a 5 year outlook.

The city already has plans to grow property tax rates to support funding shortfalls. We are all already kind of in trouble in the medium-long term and you're going to go host a ####ing party? How about we try and be sensible... for once... with our spending.

I don't trust about 95% of the population that they budget properly. It's not taught in school. It's not taught to most people. So the fact that the plebiscite is our last hope to avoid this incoming clusterF is highly concerning because a) why don't our politicians realize that the butter that butters the bread is kind of drying up and b) most people are idiots who couldn't budget themselves out of a paper bag, so let's go ask them if we should do the sensible thing and not spend or throw a massive sweet party.

Yikes. If you're a no vote, please make sure you take the time to vote and don't just assume that due to early polling the No will take this thing. We need to kill this thing for sure, this will be an economic burden we do not want. At all.

10-24-2018, 06:51 PM	#1213
Mr.Coffee damn onions Join Date: Mar 2006 Exp:	I pray this does not work. I do not want to spend hundreds (thousands?) of property tax increases so that we can have some kind of weird sense of "pride" (nebulous at best) or increased "prestige". What the hell does it matter to any of you what some guy in France or China thinks of Calgary? Nobody can explain this to me. So it makes you feel pride to come from a place, but why does that matter and why does that mean I should face tax increases as a homeowner for some nebulous BS 'feeling'? Yeah please can I pay more tax money so that Gerry and Sandra feel proud to be from Calgary? It makes no sense. People from other countries don't care about Calgary and people from Calgary don't care about other countries. Do you people sit around and think about cities with world prestige? No, and who cares? The very critical fact that the province has restricted spending to the capital budget number and excess is not funded, should be a HUGE concern and put a bullet in this thing. We know this puppy is going to take us to at least double, so $10B. As Senator Clay says, this city is in for a rude awakening in the next couple years as the reality of a (not just soft, but closer to life support situation) poor oilpatch settles in. We can't monitor economic declines to Calgary in 1 year increments. It's a 5 year outlook. The city already has plans to grow property tax rates to support funding shortfalls. We are all already kind of in trouble in the medium-long term and you're going to go host a ####ing party? How about we try and be sensible... for once... with our spending. I don't trust about 95% of the population that they budget properly. It's not taught in school. It's not taught to most people. So the fact that the plebiscite is our last hope to avoid this incoming clusterF is highly concerning because a) why don't our politicians realize that the butter that butters the bread is kind of drying up and b) most people are idiots who couldn't budget themselves out of a paper bag, so let's go ask them if we should do the sensible thing and not spend or throw a massive sweet party. Yikes. If you're a no vote, please make sure you take the time to vote and don't just assume that due to early polling the No will take this thing. We need to kill this thing for sure, this will be an economic burden we do not want. At all. Last edited by Mr.Coffee; 10-24-2018 at 06:55 PM.