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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
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Make no mistake, the more progressive your city appears the more she will want you to fail and she will actively do things to make that happen. In Edmonton the Alberta government has a lot of property as you might imagine. While under no obligation to pay property taxes prior to 2019 the government did indeed pay cities a dollar for dollar grant for their share of property taxes. In 2019, they dropped that to 75 percent, and in 2023 it’s down to 50%. So the province sits on a multibillion dollar surplus and chokes cities off. This of course hurts Edmonton by far the worst due to it being the capital, to the tune of over $80 million, annually.
There are so many examples of her doing things like this, she doesn’t want the big cities to succeed if they aren’t going to vote for her. She bought Calgary off last time with the arena in ine do the most crass examples in the moderne era and the oil and gas sector is still very conservative but if she wins again and loses a few more seats there the hostility will increase. She’s basically warning you already of that.
As an aside to this rant I love how anyone these days left of a fundamentalist, Christian right winger has become a socialist. They don’t even begin to understand what socialism is and isn’t, they just hurl it around.