AlvinofDiaspar
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Glen
If so, I do find the need to zero in on this thread as a new member to be interesting.
AoD
If so, I do find the need to zero in on this thread as a new member to be interesting.
AoD
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She's questionning what he thinks should be cut if we're to achieve his goals. That is her job. She's standing up for a variety of important services and pointing out what would suffer if we followed his course.
And she's the difficult one when he claims that he "won't do her job" or "answer any more of your questions."
That doesn't make sense.
Part of me sympathises with David Miller in one regard. He makes the point, with increasing frequency, that "As for taxes, Toronto’s residential property tax rates are the lowest in the GTA – if not the entire province. Repeat after me: residential property taxes in Toronto are the lowest, period. ". Yet despite this residents are up in arms. Residents have no idea how good they got it. The city spends more and charges less than all the rest.
The trouble with Miller's observation is that it fails to take property value into consideration. That varies considerably across the city. It's not unusual to find quite ordinary condos in the downtown with property values that could easily purchase a house in the suburbs. So unless there is a suggestion that people flee downtown for cheaper suburban digs - but a similar level of taxation - I don't really see how tax rates alone can tell us anything particularly useful.
I have no valid excuse for doing so, but I had the CFTO news on just not. This John Smith (if that is his real name) seems to be one of these right-wing gadflies that will often get under politicans skin until they lose their composure and pull one of these outbursts.
Okay, so I watched the videos on youtube. I gotta say, that John Smith is the fool! Totally clueless. It's like a shareholder coming to a shareholder's meeting without knowing anything about the company--duh!
Is that his real name? I mean, John Smith is like Jane Doe.
Paula Fletcher has my vote!
And I refuse to believe his real name is John Smith. Prove it.