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Originally Posted by GGG
This isn’t true for operations.
Operational spending has been held at pop growth plus inflation so you would expect services to remain relatively constant. (All numbers posted in the municipal election thread). Where we have seen tax increases is from the Capital Spending side.
So it isn’t a question of if services have improved or gotten worse. It’s was the West LRT, Green Line, Library, etc worse the tax increases to fund them.
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City of Calgary Operational spending has increased faster than pop growth plus inflation as measured by statistics Canada.
The City prefers to use their own made-up inflation numbers to hide how much more they are spending. Furthermore they control the rise of these inflation numbers as a huge component of their own calculation is the city's salaries. It makes no sense at all, unless your goal is to obfuscate the discussion.
Let's all be honest and use the standard accepted definition of inflation?