{"id":2102,"date":"2007-07-17T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2007-07-17T22:11:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T02:11:36","slug":"deferral-of-city-tax-revenues-may-be-a-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/07\/17\/deferral-of-city-tax-revenues-may-be-a-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Deferral of city tax revenues could be a blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mayor<\/p>\n

City Council’s decision to defer implementation of Toronto’s planned new taxes<\/a> could be a blessing for our cash-strapped city.<\/p>\n

While the mayor has to sit back, lick his wounds, and begin strategizing how to cover next year’s budget shortfall, the onus to stop these taxes has now fallen onto the lap of Toronto voters. If the taxes had been pass yesterday, Miller and co. would’ve been dealing with a public relations nightmare featuring backlash from taxpayer groups, uppity columnists at the Sun and Post, and a wide assortment of residents.<\/p>\n

Instead, the mayor and council cohorts has been given a “reprieve.” They now have the chance to challenge Toronto voters in the upcoming provincial election to tell their respective candidates that the province has to re-establish the funding levels to the pre-Mike Harris era.<\/p>\n

The city obviously needs the tax money to operate like a major metropolitan centre. And that money already exists in government coffers but its in the hands of the federal and provincial governments who are unwilling to share those funds (in the case of the Feds, they decided it’s better to give us tax cuts instead of funding, say, a national daycare program or affordable housing or public transit).<\/p>\n

So now the mayor and city council have the chance to yell in their loudest collective voice to Toronto voters: support candidates in the provincial election that are willing to address Toronto’s budget constraints or you will be faced with paying these proposed taxes, or a hefty property tax hike, or even worse, massive cuts in service<\/a>. The One Cent Now campaign<\/a> is not enough — there has to be a full-court press on Toronto’s public so that they fully understand the consequences of letting the higher levels of government get away with shafting Toronto.<\/p>\n

It will be difficult during the election for any of the parties to say that they’ll address Toronto’s financial woes head-on for fear it will lose them voters in other Ontario regions, but that’s not Toronto’s concern.<\/p>\n

The mayor and council had no choice but to try and implement these taxes — now the public has the chance to save this city’s future by collectively forcing the province to pay its fair share of running Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City Council’s decision to defer implementation of Toronto’s planned new taxes could be a blessing for our cash-strapped city. While the mayor has to sit back, lick his wounds, and begin strategizing how to cover next year’s budget shortfall, the onus to stop these taxes has now fallen onto the lap of Toronto voters. 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