What I am saying is that a lot of what Miller did is similiar to Bloomberg - specially around the area of sustainability -
To a certain degree, yes SOME of the policies are similiar, but the difference is that Miller's policy lacked execution, measure, and the concept of scale of these policies. You can't take carte blanche a policy from a city that is 3+ times larger in population with at least 10 times more wealth and simply 'scale' it down.
Yeah, he's done some okay things for the city, like the plant a tree program etc (which apperantly, Pantalone said plants 100,000 trees a year - someone do the math and see if that's even feasible?) some bike trails, etc. But he's also spread this sense of entitlement throughout this administration, and managed to tax a good chunk of every aspect of city life, simply to feed more bureacracy.
The obvious difference. Bloomberg was elected into a city still with fresh wounds from 911, billion dollar deficits, and somewhat of a social mess with crime and poverty. If you've ever been to NYC anytime before early 2000 (partly because of Gulianni) and visited after Bloombergs first term, you would think you're in a complete different ERA.
Miller got elected into a city with a fair debt and controllable budget and he's managed to balloon it approx 50% and accumulate a debt twice what it was. Now tell me, do you think Toronto has improved it's services 50% from what it was 8 years ago?
Let's not forget all the additional tax revenue that's been generated from the organic growth of people moving to downtown toronto (Condos)
So whether it was his policies, lack of execution, an incompetent of staff, or whatever. I still think it's his fault (with the support of many of the counicllors).
But enough Miller bashing lol I'm too drained fighting a war that I will never win.. lol. back to Municipal sales taxes.
I think majority of Torontonians would say yes if there was a gurantee that ALL of the revenue go directly to infrastructure spending in building subways.
p.s. David Miller increased his office budget by something like 35% since 2006. that's a fact -
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