Lest we forget.

“vangrl Says:
April 30th, 2015 at 12:09 pm 43

Ching Chang Cheu Choppy meu liu lee ma ling lang Mu mai mo mei…”

Your “Chinese friends” must be very proud of you.

Dear Christy Clarke: there is no shortage of tax dollars to be had in this city. Don’t come looking to my middle class (did I say middle, oops that was last year before the latest wave of corrupt $) to pay for your transit tax or any other tax for that matter. Those newly arrived who haven’t paid a cent of tax to date yet can afford multi million dollar houses can pay. Pay or get out. We have the choice. And if you won’t do it, we’ll vote for someone who will. Stop penny pinching teachers when there’s corrupt $ flooding into this city. Do something about it! Joe Taxpayer

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Dang locusts were feeding big time in West Van again.

@elvince – Education and health care take up over 80% of provincial budget. I really don’t think the prov gives much $$ to GVRD cities, if any. So there isn’t much income tax savings to be had, if any. Second, what I said is basically reality. Outside of a few isolated instance of tax cut driven by ideology and really just disguised as tax cut for the rich, when has general gov’t spending ever been cut or reduced? Gov’t spending and as a result taxes have been increasing at a faster than CPI or GDP growth rate for a few decades now. All levels of gov’t spending and thus taxes take up 50% of an average person’s paycheque. For all that taxes and spending, have the services and the average person’s standard of living increased correspondingly? I would say not… Read more »

@space889: Your attitude is exactly why my plan would never have a snowball’s chance in Hades. The whole thing could BEGIN with having the province lower income taxes, then an immediate effect would be lower municipal subsidy. City runs out of revenu, has to increase taxes. Voilà! But you proved my point, most people (wrongly) think like you do.

But for as long as people don’t understand that taxes are what a governement spend and not what you pay, you’ll have people who imagine that higher taxes means more waste, while it could very well just mean less taxes somewhere else.

Hence, the words “higher taxes” have become taboo, even if it means a lower total amount of taxation for most people.

I question how much light will be shed. So far, the only light being shone is coming from one journalist thousands of miles away.

@BPOM – so basically ban any REITs or REIT like companies from owning properties?? Wow, where will the poor vangrl gets her juicy monthly dividends then???

@bullwhip29 – actually they do have other cards to play, the problem is that most of those cards benefit the 99% more than the 1% that donate campaign money or provide lucractive private sector jobs after politicians leave politics. So we end up pursuing mostly policies that really just benefit the 1%.