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Originally Posted by V
If you want to live in the 90s, go to Portland. The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland.
On the other hand, if Council wants to extract more money from out of towners, they're well within their right to do so, hilariously, because they actually live there and therefore get to say what kind of a town they want. Maybe the experiment fails and everyone leaves, but my guess is there's plenty of money out there, and the demand is high enough that everyone will end up paying the tax.
I do get a kick out of Sliver's emotional tirades, though. Canadian against Canadian, Albertan against Albertan. You just feel so sad about the labels other people put on you. Haha. I don't buy it. This is all about money. Your point isn't landing how you want because you're so transparently disingenuous.
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It's 90% about money and 10% about the vilification of second homeowners by town council and full-time residents.
Town council has hired a lobbying firm - using my tax dollars - to fund a PR campaign that is anti-second homeowner. My money is going toward an effort to desparage me to promote a 300% increase in my taxes while making me uncomfortable to be around hostile neighbours.
There's nothing disingenuous about my perspective or anything I've said.
This tax increase could very well be large enough that we'll have to rethink our vacation home there. So who will buy if we sell? The front desk Aussie at the Windmark? The dishwasher at Boston Pizza? Of course not. It'll just be a richer Calgarian than me. This tax solves nothing in terms of affordable housing.
The town lost a court battle to implement this tax in 2025. Did they cut programs for affordable housing to make up for the shortfall? Nope. We're going to hold off on resurfacing an ice rink and building a wildlife fence around a field.