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Originally Posted by Wormius
I don’t know if you’re referring to this, but how much work do you want city councillors and their staff to do to save you $4 a month?
Yeah, I get the “every penny counts” crap really plays to some fiscal wing-nuts, but I think we need to be serious people. Unless there’s something that can save half my property tax bill and not adversely effect my day to day life, this is just theatrics by councillors who have accomplished nothing of value during their terms.
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I think the better question is how much time do I want the councillors to spend to find money in the existing budget to build an overpass, a peace bridge or more bike lanes. Taxation is a scarace resource whatever we waste in opex comes at the expense of other opportunities.
In my opinion they should increase taxes by .5% too much every year but in the 5th year you have 2.5% cost reductions throughout the city. I think a feature of the private sector is downturns where certain work just doesn’t get done anymore because it can’t be funded. This reset button is important. We need a means of simulating in municipal politics.
I think the activities that Nenshi did his first two years need to be a continuous improvement process to always be lowering the cost per capita after inflation of base services.