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Originally Posted by Wormius
I think if they can lay out the argument for increases logically and easily understood, people *should* be able to get with the program. Maybe even show a per-household cost for services and stuff. When people see the whole cost of say, snow clearing, I don’t think they don’t really look at that divided over all the households in the city.
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People have preconceived notions about what is a waste of money, where the budget can be cut etc. based on their personal uses of city services. For example if they drive everywhere they might see transit as a target for cuts. If they are home bodies or are outdoors people maybe they see arts funding as wasteful (theatre, symphony), if they throw everything in the garbage maybe they see recycling fees as excessive. I'll bet if you ask 10 people you would get 10 different answers as to what could be cut and where spending is wasteful. I like to consider myself pretty reasonable but admit I'm probably the same, my ideas would not be the same as others either.