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Originally Posted by stampsx2
Welp, Trevor Toombe who’s an economist has figured out that taxes would go up $25 annually. It was repeated at the cbc town hall. If you have different tax projections from credible sources, would you mind sharing your results? If the results are higher i would really like to know beofre i vote on tuesday.
Just reminding you that taxes would go up if the city can’t find other aources of revenue from the games. There’s also a billion dollar contingency built into the budget and our venues are 85% built.
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And as has been discussed before the taxes will rise much more than that. I have friends that have told me that we should believe Toombe over Ernst and Young. These friends are very smart people and I’m led to believe that we should buy whatever Trevor Toombe says as literal dogma and if he offered to sell us anything we should take it because Trevor Toombe is Trevor Toombe and holy #### never question Trevor Toombe.
Did Trevor Toombe outlay his assumptions or math to arrive at $25? As JBR says, show your work???
If there are 200,000 places that pay property taxes in Calgary at 500,000,000 it’s $2,500/ place. I’m aware it’s not this simple and I’m aware my numbers are dubious but I’m also highly, highly, incredibly highly skeptical it’s $25 on property taxes especially with no context or numbers or backup or anything. And most shocking is that people like you who are so enamoured and borderline cultish and closed minded about how important this is for some bizarre reason cruise on here and lap up Trevor Toombe analysis like it’s religious dogma.
Again get real. $25 in property taxes? You would have to be a complete and utter moron to believe that without context.