Why when the need to find new revenue arises does Toronto City hall feel it necessary to soften or alter the perception of the blow and save some face with its taxpayers through the art of illusion?
Finding a fresh pocket to take the money from does not mask or distract from the reality. If the citizens of Toronto are required to fork over more money to cover its needs then all of the city should pay for those needs, don't put it onto the backs of new home buyers, don't penalize the guy picking up his weekend case of beer at the end of a hard week, every tax payer and service user should pay their share, but only after exhausting all efforts to find efficiencies within the system.
People are not idiots, a dollar from here, a dollar from there and another dollar from around there taken with the other hand is still three dollars. There is a system in place for collecting property taxes, why create additional and redundant revenue collecting bureaucracies that only add to the expense of running the city?
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