One way to compare this is to look at straight Milrate. So if a person buys the same value of house in Airdrie as they do in Calgary who pays more in taxes.
The Airdrie residential milrate is .0042 the city of Calgary mil-rate is .0039.
Now you might argue that houses are cheaper in Airdrie and therefore the milrate needs to be higher to support the same services. However that just shows how much Calgary benefits from them being separate. If those people lived in a suburb of Calgary instead of Airdrie taxes would have to be increased to provide the same revenue per capita.
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