{"id":2314,"date":"2007-09-20T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:18:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:18:23","slug":"new-taxes-a-better-toronto-say-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/09\/20\/new-taxes-a-better-toronto-say-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"New taxes = a better Toronto, say artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1048\/1414703996_efa2c5127f.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/daily\/?p=933\">Eye Daily.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When was the last time you heard of a protest to raise taxes?<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Toronto artists took to Nathan Phillip&#8217;s Square for a rally in favour of the proposed land transfer and vehicle registration taxes that council will vote on in October. Their message: if you want a healthy, vibrant city, you gotta pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairtaxes.ca\/\">mayor&#8217;s initiative to fix this broken structure <\/a>immediately is Toronto&#8217;s only fiscally responsible option. We should all take to it like a duck to water!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said a shirtless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harmsen.net\/\">Lief Harmsen<\/a> wearing an inflatable duck-shaped pool toy around his waist. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our city will be nothing if we support the politicians who try to duck responsibility!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Instead of lecturing the city about finding efficiencies or getting their financial house in order, speakers at the rally turned their attention towards the questionable tactics and claims of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontorealestateboard.com\/\">Toronto Real Estate Board.<\/a> Councillor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/councillors\/vaughan1.htm\">Adam Vaughan<\/a> told the crowd how the board warned him that if he didn&#8217;t vote against the new taxes, they would make sure he lost the next election. (Considering the former City TV reporter trounced the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontolife.com\/features\/running-man\/print\/\"> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153NDP machine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> in the last election, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s too worried.)<\/p>\n<p>Harmsen argued that homeowners will still enjoy hefty profits when they sell their house if the new land transfer tax becomes a reality. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Real estate is sold at the highest price the market can bear. Land transfer tax cannot make a difference to what buyers can afford to pay in total. It can therefore only affect the seller&#8217;s capital gain,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he reasoned. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Your capital gain in this town has been fabulously gigantic if you&#8217;ve owned your home for a while\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. Having a working, vibrant city is ultimately what gives land here real value.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Roy Mitchell, executive director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitysquarevideo.com\/\">Trinity Square Video<\/a>, got the crowd laughing with his performance of an over-the-top anti-tax advocate. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The city should focus on the big things, like the crystal and the lights on the CN Tower &#8212; things you can see from your cars,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Keep the Lion King going, but forget about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarragontheatre.com\/\">Tarragon Theatre<\/a>, that&#8217;s just a spice.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>After shedding his character at end of his speech, Mitchell asked those in attendance, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we don&#8217;t invest in this city now, what will we have down the road?<\/p>\n<p>Plans to continue to advocate for the new taxes &#8212; as well as provincial uploading &#8212; are in the works.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Jessica Wyman <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/daily\/?p=933\">Click here to leave a comment.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted from Eye Daily. When was the last time you heard of a protest to raise taxes? Yesterday, Toronto artists took to Nathan Phillip&#8217;s Square for a rally in favour of the proposed land transfer and vehicle registration taxes that council will vote on in October. Their message: if you want a healthy, vibrant city,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/09\/20\/new-taxes-a-better-toronto-say-artists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;New taxes = a better Toronto, say artists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6799,1050,6797,686,408,6798,352,4328,370,115,505,6800,46,19,6801],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-aeoeour-mayor","tag-adam-vaughan","tag-anti-tax-advocate","tag-cn-tower","tag-councillor","tag-director-of-trinity-square-video","tag-executive-director","tag-jessica-wyman","tag-king","tag-nathan-phillips-square","tag-reporter","tag-roy-mitchell","tag-taxes","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-real-estate-board"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New taxes = a better Toronto, say artists - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/09\/20\/new-taxes-a-better-toronto-say-artists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New taxes = a better Toronto, say artists - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cross-posted from Eye Daily. 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