It’s funny that they don’t put that Opex is only marginally higher than municipal inflation plus pop growth. We could do better on wages in union negotiations to bring them back down a bit over time but really spending is being driven by Capital projects. Overpassed, LRTs Arenas and Libraries are the source of tax increases. So anyone cutting or freezing taxes should be asked which capital projects are they cutting.
Or one could run on cutting police budgets as that sacred cow never seems to get pushed like other departments.
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